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Page 88
... Felsenstein in 1977 ( Photo courtesy of Lee Felsenstein ) Lee Felsenstein in 1962 discussing his intercom device on a local television program ( Photo courtesy of Lee Felsenstein ) Computers are mostly used against people instead of for ...
... Felsenstein in 1977 ( Photo courtesy of Lee Felsenstein ) Lee Felsenstein in 1962 discussing his intercom device on a local television program ( Photo courtesy of Lee Felsenstein ) Computers are mostly used against people instead of for ...
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... Lee Felsenstein Wildfire in Silicon Valley The Fourth Street garage in Berkeley was a busy place in the spring of 1975 . Lee Felsenstein was making a meagre living from odd jobs like repairing friends ' Altairs , and Bob Marsh was ...
... Lee Felsenstein Wildfire in Silicon Valley The Fourth Street garage in Berkeley was a busy place in the spring of 1975 . Lee Felsenstein was making a meagre living from odd jobs like repairing friends ' Altairs , and Bob Marsh was ...
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... Lee Felsenstein Nostalgia for the Future In June 1975 , Bob Marsh and Popular Electronics technical editor Les Solomon were contemplating an " intelligent terminal " kit , a terminal with semiconduc- tor circuitry inside it , to perform ...
... Lee Felsenstein Nostalgia for the Future In June 1975 , Bob Marsh and Popular Electronics technical editor Les Solomon were contemplating an " intelligent terminal " kit , a terminal with semiconduc- tor circuitry inside it , to perform ...
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 |