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rain across the Bay Bridge to the peninsula that stretches from San Francisco in
the north to 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 ...
rain across the Bay Bridge to the peninsula that stretches from San Francisco in
the north to 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 ...
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By this time a motley group of engineers and revolutionaries had assembled in
Silicon Valley in the infancy of a billion-dollar industry: irascible Bill Godbout, who
suspected lawyers; ex-Berkeley Barb technical editor and current Homebrew ...
By this time a motley group of engineers and revolutionaries had assembled in
Silicon Valley in the infancy of a billion-dollar industry: irascible Bill Godbout, who
suspected lawyers; ex-Berkeley Barb technical editor and current Homebrew ...
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And some people, Terrell later mused, said it never snowed in 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 ...
And some people, Terrell later mused, said it never snowed in 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 ...
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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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Altair Apple III Apple's Ballmer 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 employees engineers Espinosa Eubanks Faber Fylstra garage Gary Kildall Gates and Allen Godbout hardware Heiser hobbyists Hoff Homebrew IBM's IMSAI industry Intel knew language later Lee Felsenstein Lohse machine magazine mainframe manufacturers Markkula meeting 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 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 |
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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