Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal ComputerChronicles History of Computer Pioneers & the Industry They Founded |
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... engineers studied and spurned a design offered by one of their employees , an engineer - without - degree named Stephen Wozniak . In their rejection , the HP engineers acknowledged that Wozniak's computer worked and could be built ...
... engineers studied and spurned a design offered by one of their employees , an engineer - without - degree named Stephen Wozniak . In their rejection , the HP engineers acknowledged that Wozniak's computer worked and could be built ...
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... engineers who worked with large computers all knew the feeling of being " locked out of the machine room . " When the digital computer first became widely available to scientists and engineers in medium - sized businesses in the 1960s ...
... engineers who worked with large computers all knew the feeling of being " locked out of the machine room . " When the digital computer first became widely available to scientists and engineers in medium - sized businesses in the 1960s ...
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... engineers like Felsenstein . He occupied it with a group from the San Francisco Switchboard , a volunteer ref- erral agency , along with assorted other " computer junkies " who had left UC Berkeley protesting the American invasion of ...
... engineers like Felsenstein . He occupied it with a group from the San Francisco Switchboard , a volunteer ref- erral agency , along with assorted other " computer junkies " who had left UC Berkeley protesting the American invasion 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
References to this book
Western Sunrise: The Genesis and Growth of Britain's Major High Tech Corridor No preview available - 1987 |