Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal ComputerChronicles History of Computer Pioneers & the Industry They Founded |
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... Popular Electronics was on the lookout for a computer story for his magazine . Both Solomon and Editorial Director ... Electronics , was preparing to publish an article on such a machine . If a home - built computer design were possible ...
... Popular Electronics was on the lookout for a computer story for his magazine . Both Solomon and Editorial Director ... Electronics , was preparing to publish an article on such a machine . If a home - built computer design were possible ...
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... Popular Electronics too . The Mark - 8 may have been fatally limited by the crude 8008 microprocessor , but its appearance in RE made Popular Electronics realize that it needed something better . Salsberg saw the article and said ...
... Popular Electronics too . The Mark - 8 may have been fatally limited by the crude 8008 microprocessor , but its appearance in RE made Popular Electronics realize that it needed something better . Salsberg saw the article and said ...
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... Popular Electronics story and the sale to Pertec , an industry began to grow . The Altair announcement in January 1975 triggered both tech- nological and social change . The hobbyists who read the Popular Electronics article may not ...
... Popular Electronics story and the sale to Pertec , an industry began to grow . The Altair announcement in January 1975 triggered both tech- nological and social change . The hobbyists who read the Popular Electronics article may not ...
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 |