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... Faber . This time he asked him to come to work for IMSAI . Faber was skeptical . Killian's computer was , like the Altair , a kit . Kits were ridiculous , Faber thought . He had never heard of building your own computer , let alone ...
... Faber . This time he asked him to come to work for IMSAI . Faber was skeptical . Killian's computer was , like the Altair , a kit . Kits were ridiculous , Faber thought . He had never heard of building your own computer , let alone ...
Page 192
... Faber left IMSAI in 1976 , with Bill Millard's blessing , to start the new chain for Millard . Faber was an old hand at start - up operations . After graduat- ing from Cornell and serving in the Marine Corps , he had joined IBM as a ...
... Faber left IMSAI in 1976 , with Bill Millard's blessing , to start the new chain for Millard . Faber was an old hand at start - up operations . After graduat- ing from Cornell and serving in the Marine Corps , he had joined IBM as a ...
Page 193
... Faber automatically discounted . The idea of selling kit computers through the mail for buyers to assemble at home seemed preposterous to the IBM man . But Faber couldn't argue with the actual market response . IMSAI was knee - deep in ...
... Faber automatically discounted . The idea of selling kit computers through the mail for buyers to assemble at home seemed preposterous to the IBM man . But Faber couldn't argue with the actual market response . IMSAI was knee - deep in ...
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 |