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Page 184
... Heiser , was particularly struck by this response . He realized that these people were going to have a lot of questions about Altair assembly . Maybe he could help , he thought . Heiser , a systems analyst , had recently spent $ 14,000 ...
... Heiser , was particularly struck by this response . He realized that these people were going to have a lot of questions about Altair assembly . Maybe he could help , he thought . Heiser , a systems analyst , had recently spent $ 14,000 ...
Page 185
... Heiser recalled , " but they told me it sounded like a good idea , and we signed a contract . " By mid - July , Heiser had opened a small store in a low - rent area of West Los Angeles and was paying $ 225 per month for rent . In large ...
... Heiser recalled , " but they told me it sounded like a good idea , and we signed a contract . " By mid - July , Heiser had opened a small store in a low - rent area of West Los Angeles and was paying $ 225 per month for rent . In large ...
Page 193
... Heiser's competitor in Southern California . French had approached IMSAI with the idea of buying kits in quantity and retailing them in a computer store . Again Faber arched his eyebrows . Sell computers to customers right off the ...
... Heiser's competitor in Southern California . French had approached IMSAI with the idea of buying kits in quantity and retailing them in a computer store . Again Faber arched his eyebrows . Sell computers to customers right off the ...
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 |