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... Radio Shack announces its first TRS - 80 micro- computer . • Adventure Interna- tional founded . 1978 • Apple introduces and begins shipping disk drives for the Apple II . ⚫ " Black Wednesday " firings at IMSAI . • Apple initiates Lisa ...
... Radio Shack announces its first TRS - 80 micro- computer . • Adventure Interna- tional founded . 1978 • Apple introduces and begins shipping disk drives for the Apple II . ⚫ " Black Wednesday " firings at IMSAI . • Apple initiates Lisa ...
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... Radio Shack was an electronics distributor and did not want to touch computer manufacturing at all . The giant chain , known around its Fort Worth base ... Shack purchased Allied Radio of Chicago , its closest competitor , Radio Shack so 196.
... Radio Shack was an electronics distributor and did not want to touch computer manufacturing at all . The giant chain , known around its Fort Worth base ... Shack purchased Allied Radio of Chicago , its closest competitor , Radio Shack so 196.
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... Radio Shack stores had already sold 10,000 TRS - 80s . In June , Radio Shack had assigned French to establish retail stores for the TRS - 80 . The computer was still an orphan within Radio Shack , French felt . The company wasn't sure ...
... Radio Shack stores had already sold 10,000 TRS - 80s . In June , Radio Shack had assigned French to establish retail stores for the TRS - 80 . The computer was still an orphan within Radio Shack , French felt . The company wasn't sure ...
Contents
The Voyage to Altair | 25 |
The Miracle Makers | 55 |
Homebrew | 97 |
Copyright | |
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer Paul Freiberger,Michael Swaine No preview available - 2000 |
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Altair Apple Computer Apple II Apple's BASIC began Bill Gates Bill Millard Bob Marsh building Byte calculator California called chip circuit board Computer Club computer companies ComputerLand Corporation CP/M Cromemco customers David Ahl dealers device Digital Research disk drive Dompier early Ed Roberts employees engineers Espinosa Eubanks Faber Fylstra garage Gary Kildall Gates and Allen Godbout hardware Heiser hobbyists Hoff Homebrew IMSAI industry Intel knew language later Lee Felsenstein Lohse machine magazine mainframe Markkula memory boards Micro microcomputer microprocessor Microsoft Mike Markkula minicomputer MITS MITS's operating system Osborne Paul Allen personal computer Pertec Photo courtesy Popular Electronics problem Proc Tech Processor Technology puter Radio Shack retail Roberts Rubinstein sell semiconductor Shrayer Silicon Valley sold Solomon soon Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak Tandy Terrell things thought told took users VisiCalc wanted Wigginton Woz's Xerox
References to this book
Western Sunrise: The Genesis and Growth of Britain's Major High Tech Corridor No preview available - 1987 |