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MITS would ship the box and CPU board with 256 bytes of memory and the front
panel and nothing else until the backlog was cleared. As delivered, the Altair was
no more powerful than the Mark-8. Only its possibilities were greater.
MITS would ship the box and CPU board with 256 bytes of memory and the front
panel and nothing else until the backlog was cleared. As delivered, the Altair was
no more powerful than the Mark-8. Only its possibilities were greater.
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The only company to win approval from MITS for its boards was Garland and
Melen's Cromemco, named for Crothers Memorial Hall, their graduate dormitory
at Stanford. Garland and Melen had gotten sidetracked from their plan to connect
the ...
The only company to win approval from MITS for its boards was Garland and
Melen's Cromemco, named for Crothers Memorial Hall, their graduate dormitory
at Stanford. Garland and Melen had gotten sidetracked from their plan to connect
the ...
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MITS had more to worry about than competition. The company had grown too big
too fast. "We had too many irons in the fire," Roberts admitted later. "We had a lot
more things going than a company the size of ours should have had going.
MITS had more to worry about than competition. The company had grown too big
too fast. "We had too many irons in the fire," Roberts admitted later. "We had a lot
more things going than a company the size of ours should have had going.
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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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Western Sunrise: The Genesis and Growth of Britain's Major High Tech Corridor No preview available - 1987 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Fire in the valley: the making of the personal computer |
| Authors | Paul Freiberger, Michael Swaine |
| Publisher | Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0881341215, 9780881341218 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Business & Economics / Corporate & Business History Business & Economics / Industries / General Computers Computers / Hardware / Personal Computers / General Computers / History Microcomputers Microcomputers History Minicomputers |
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