I did all the ‘porting’ work. I could essentially get CP/M running on toaster in a few days. I do recall that Sanco 8001 pictured above and in the CP/M wiki link

Part of the work was to reverse engineer the floppy disk sector layout which was usually optimized for the speed of the machine. This information was fed into the Lifeboat fulfillment process (that duplicated floppies and shipped them to the customer) so that we could deliver the software in the correct format.

As I mentioned, my boss was good friends with Bill Gates. This friendship along with my reputation for porting CP/M led to a job offer from Bill… which I turned down at the time (and would have been like employee #20)… of course my billion dollar mistake.

This was one of my early ‘just get it done’ projects. By that time I had also done a home computer out of discreet integrated circuits (before ‘chips’ like the 6502 were available) as well as putting together an early hand-held video game prototype on my kitchen table that I presented (through the inventor of Boggle, whom I knew) to Ideal Toys. They thought it too expensive at the time to produce, but offered me a design job saying ‘You did it at your kitchen table for $100, it would have cost us at least a million to get to this prototype phase’