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Page 105
... Micro - 8 Newsletter in Southern California and had formed a Micro - 8 club shortly after Homebrew started . Other publica- tions were passed around . PCC and Hal Chamberlain's The Computer Hobbyist attracted special interest . A Denver ...
... Micro - 8 Newsletter in Southern California and had formed a Micro - 8 club shortly after Homebrew started . Other publica- tions were passed around . PCC and Hal Chamberlain's The Computer Hobbyist attracted special interest . A Denver ...
Page 134
... micro- computer with less than 2K of memory at the PC'76 computer show in Atlantic City , brought it home , and boldly declared to his wife : " That's a computer and I'm going to teach it to play chess . " Writing a chess program ...
... micro- computer with less than 2K of memory at the PC'76 computer show in Atlantic City , brought it home , and boldly declared to his wife : " That's a computer and I'm going to teach it to play chess . " Writing a chess program ...
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... Micro Chess game , 134 Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems ( MITS ) , 28-53 , 62 , 110 , 121-22 , 150 , 180 , 188 ; exclusivity policy , 186- 87 , 189 , 193 ; Altair's first recital , 129-31 ; Computer Notes , 178 ; development of ...
... Micro Chess game , 134 Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems ( MITS ) , 28-53 , 62 , 110 , 121-22 , 150 , 180 , 188 ; exclusivity policy , 186- 87 , 189 , 193 ; Altair's first recital , 129-31 ; Computer Notes , 178 ; development of ...
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
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Western Sunrise: The Genesis and Growth of Britain's Major High Tech Corridor No preview available - 1987 |