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... Bill Gates , 13 years old and looking even younger , was proud of his abilities in mathematics and was hooked on programming . Gates , Allen , and the others had been hired - " allowed " might be a better word , since they worked for ...
... Bill Gates , 13 years old and looking even younger , was proud of his abilities in mathematics and was hooked on programming . Gates , Allen , and the others had been hired - " allowed " might be a better word , since they worked for ...
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... Bill Gates was criticizing individual DEC programmers : " Hey , so - and - so made the same mistake again . " Perhaps Gates got too cocky . Certainly he was exhilarated by the sense of power he derived from controlling the giant ...
... Bill Gates was criticizing individual DEC programmers : " Hey , so - and - so made the same mistake again . " Perhaps Gates got too cocky . Certainly he was exhilarated by the sense of power he derived from controlling the giant ...
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... Bill Gates IBM HP and Xerox had made less than spectacular entries into the personal com- puter market , and there was intense curiosity within that industry about how IBM would fare . The megafirm was considered successful in almost ...
... Bill Gates IBM HP and Xerox had made less than spectacular entries into the personal com- puter market , and there was intense curiosity within that industry about how IBM would fare . The megafirm was considered successful in almost ...
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 |