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Much of this page was written from memory - I worked with the Atari professionally at NASA in the early 1980's, and was very fond of OSS products. I realize that more references are needed.

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In Jan 1988, ICD and OSS merged. That was the official announcement. What really happened was the authors and/or rights holders to BASIC XL/XE, Mac/65, Action, etc. sold their interests to ICD. So the products were no longer being developed by ICD or OSS. OSS ceased to exist. --[[User:Pelladon|Pelladon]] 18:18, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

In Jan 1988, ICD and OSS merged.

Actually, so far as I know, the only author who negotiated separately with ICD was Steve Lawrow. We did simply sell our rights (and inventory and mailing lists and the key to the rest room) to ICD. -- Bill Wilkinson 24 May 2006

:Thanks Bill. —[[User:Pelladon|Pelladon]] 05:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

== Did OSS make any products for the Apple II ? ==

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: Shepardson did sell Apple II products. OSS bought the rights for both Atari and Apple II products. But it is unclear if OSS continued to sell Apple II software. (This comes from ''Inside Atari DOS''). --[[User:Pelladon|Pelladon]] 21:49, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

: OSS never sold Apple II products. Mostly we just ran out of time and energy, I think. If I recall correctly, I think we even stated we were going to release Apple versions (in the very first KiloBaud ad?? wish I still had a copy of that to check), but we never did. --Bill Wilkinson 24 May 2006