 Reportedly, MIDAS was also prepared to support 10-bit, 12-bit and 16-bit FAT variants.While the size of directory entries was 16 bytes in "Standalone Disk BASIC", MIDAS instead occupied 32 bytes per entry.Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) was first introduced to Microsoft's FAT structure when he helped Bob O'Rear adapting the "Standalone Disk BASIC-86" emulator port onto SCP's S-100 bus 8086 CPU board prototype during a guest week at Microsoft in May 1979.