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Page 69
... IMSAI needed a disk operating system . From the start Millard saw the IMSAI machine as a disk - drive machine , that is , one that would use magnetic disks for permanent information storage . The Altair had initially used slower and ...
... IMSAI needed a disk operating system . From the start Millard saw the IMSAI machine as a disk - drive machine , that is , one that would use magnetic disks for permanent information storage . The Altair had initially used slower and ...
Page 72
... IMSAI , spawned ComputerLand , Faber's franchise operation . Millard also went to Luxembourg for several months to set up IMSAI Europe , a separate corporation that would buy computers from the California operation for resale in Europe ...
... IMSAI , spawned ComputerLand , Faber's franchise operation . Millard also went to Luxembourg for several months to set up IMSAI Europe , a separate corporation that would buy computers from the California operation for resale in Europe ...
Page 77
... IMSAI was not dead yet . Before lockout , Todd Fisher came in and picked up some equipment . Along with Nancy Freitas , Todd had formed an indepen- dent repair company after leaving IMSAI , and they were doing most of the IMSAI repairs ...
... IMSAI was not dead yet . Before lockout , Todd Fisher came in and picked up some equipment . Along with Nancy Freitas , Todd had formed an indepen- dent repair company after leaving IMSAI , and they were doing most of the IMSAI repairs ...
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 |