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Page 35
... Melen first saw it . The day after Roberts and Yates's piece on the Altair arrived , another article came across Solomon's desk and caught his attention . Harry Garland and Roger Melen , the two Stanford graduate students Solomon had ...
... Melen first saw it . The day after Roberts and Yates's piece on the Altair arrived , another article came across Solomon's desk and caught his attention . Harry Garland and Roger Melen , the two Stanford graduate students Solomon had ...
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... Melen hurried back to the airport to catch an eight o'clock flight to San Francisco . Soon after , Solomon wrote to Garland and Melen suggesting a television adapter for Cyclops , but they replied that it would be prohibitively ...
... Melen hurried back to the airport to catch an eight o'clock flight to San Francisco . Soon after , Solomon wrote to Garland and Melen suggesting a television adapter for Cyclops , but they replied that it would be prohibitively ...
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... Melen were there in person , a show unto themselves - burly Melen , a match for Roberts in size but far more reticent , the diminutive Garland bubbling with enthusiasm . There were also a number of uninvited companies whose ...
... Melen were there in person , a show unto themselves - burly Melen , a match for Roberts in size but far more reticent , the diminutive Garland bubbling with enthusiasm . There were also a number of uninvited companies whose ...
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 |