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Page 115
... drive manufacturer , announced a drive that used 5 1 / 4 - inch disks - smaller than the 8 - inch disks in common use on bigger computers - and that cost less than any other disk drive . So Grant and Greenberg started designing a ...
... drive manufacturer , announced a drive that used 5 1 / 4 - inch disks - smaller than the 8 - inch disks in common use on bigger computers - and that cost less than any other disk drive . So Grant and Greenberg started designing a ...
Page 120
... drive fiasco . " Disk drives posed an alluring challenge in 1976 , when the Sol was released . They existed and were used heavily on mainframe and minicomputers , but to mount a disk drive on a microcomputer was prohibitively expensive .
... drive fiasco . " Disk drives posed an alluring challenge in 1976 , when the Sol was released . They existed and were used heavily on mainframe and minicomputers , but to mount a disk drive on a microcomputer was prohibitively expensive .
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... drive motor move through software . Wigginton took it from there . Woz and Wigginton worked day and night throughout December , even laboring for ten hours on Christmas Day . They knew they couldn't get a com- plete disk operating ...
... drive motor move through software . Wigginton took it from there . Woz and Wigginton worked day and night throughout December , even laboring for ten hours on Christmas Day . They knew they couldn't get a com- plete disk operating ...
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 |