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Page 209
... Jobs returned to Silicon Valley and took a job with a young video game company , Atari . He stayed until he had saved enough money for a trip to India that he and Dan Kottke had planned . The two had had long discussions about the ...
... Jobs returned to Silicon Valley and took a job with a young video game company , Atari . He stayed until he had saved enough money for a trip to India that he and Dan Kottke had planned . The two had had long discussions about the ...
Page 239
... Jobs's time . In the spring of 1979 Jobs had paid a visit to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC ) , a laboratory funded by Xerox with millions of dollars to carry out high - tech experiments . PARC scientists frequently foresaw ...
... Jobs's time . In the spring of 1979 Jobs had paid a visit to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center ( PARC ) , a laboratory funded by Xerox with millions of dollars to carry out high - tech experiments . PARC scientists frequently foresaw ...
Page 240
... Jobs had his way . Jobs even hired one of the principal scientists away from Xerox PARC and assigned him to Lisa . Larry Tessler's task was to design the most advanced personal computer system available and to make Apple the ...
... Jobs had his way . Jobs even hired one of the principal scientists away from Xerox PARC and assigned him to Lisa . Larry Tessler's task was to design the most advanced personal computer system available and to make Apple 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 |