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Page 105
... Silicon Valley in the south . Gordon French lived in suburban Menlo Park , a town jogging distance from Stanford and right on the edge of Silicon Valley . At the first meeting , Steve Dompier reported on his visit to Albuquerque . MITS ...
... Silicon Valley in the south . Gordon French lived in suburban Menlo Park , a town jogging distance from Stanford and right on the edge of Silicon Valley . At the first meeting , Steve Dompier reported on his visit to Albuquerque . MITS ...
Page 108
... Silicon Valley in the infancy of a billion - dollar industry : irascible Bill God- bout , who suspected lawyers ; ex - Berkeley Barb technical editor and current Homebrew toastmaster Lee Felsenstein ; Bob Albrecht , who left a high ...
... Silicon Valley in the infancy of a billion - dollar industry : irascible Bill God- bout , who suspected lawyers ; ex - Berkeley Barb technical editor and current Homebrew toastmaster Lee Felsenstein ; Bob Albrecht , who left a high ...
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... Silicon Valley . Terrell recalled his friends ' warnings as he watched the snow falling on December 8 , 1975 - the day he opened his Mountain View store in the heart of Silicon Valley . Like most Altair dealers , Terrell quickly ran ...
... Silicon Valley . Terrell recalled his friends ' warnings as he watched the snow falling on December 8 , 1975 - the day he opened his Mountain View store in the heart of Silicon Valley . Like most Altair dealers , Terrell quickly ran ...
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 |