He was simply an engineer like many others who came up with a solution to a problem. Hundreds gathered to hear him speak in Boca Raton Tuesday, March 26th at 8am, as he reminisced with attendees, as well as former IBM colleagues.īradley’s presentation “The History of the PC” took a historic walk down memory lane that included rare video footage with Bill Gates! Bradley says he’s always been surprised at his “cult-like” following over the years. He came up with the command right here in Boca Raton at the BRIC campus in 1980 (IBM’s campus at that time). “It’s a thrill to bring him back to where it all began to share the rich heritage of BRIC and his pivotal place in history.”īradley’s invention of the Ctrl + Alt + Delete key combination is also known as the three-finger salute.
#WHO INVENTED CTRL ALT DELETE PC#
Dave speak at our first TEDxBocaRatonSalon event at Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRIC), the place the original PC was born,” said Erik Mintz, TEDxBocaRaton organizer and former IBM engineer. Dave as many IBMers affectionately call him), into a cultural icon of sorts. These two legacies have propelled Bradley (or Dr. Dave Bradley, a question to a final Jeopardy answer in 2002, but he is also one of the “original 12” who built the personal computer.
Ctrl + Alt + Delete is the “invention” essential to billions of personal computer users, worldwide, for nearly 40 years.
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