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Page 109
... garage in Berkeley was a busy place in the spring of 1975 . Lee Felsenstein was making a meagre living from odd jobs like repairing friends ' Altairs , and Bob Marsh was tearing open checks , writing ad copy , and doing his best to ...
... garage in Berkeley was a busy place in the spring of 1975 . Lee Felsenstein was making a meagre living from odd jobs like repairing friends ' Altairs , and Bob Marsh was tearing open checks , writing ad copy , and doing his best to ...
Page 117
... garage to a much larger facility , 14,000 square feet next to a beef - rendering plant in nearby Emeryville . The atmo- sphere was uninviting , but the new location proved , for a while , far roomier than the garage . A month after Proc ...
... garage to a much larger facility , 14,000 square feet next to a beef - rendering plant in nearby Emeryville . The atmo- sphere was uninviting , but the new location proved , for a while , far roomier than the garage . A month after Proc ...
Page 214
... garage enterprises , growing , like MITS had since January of 1975 , on prepaid mail orders . They needed investment capital , and there were strong arguments against giving it to them : the high failure rate among microcomputer ...
... garage enterprises , growing , like MITS had since January of 1975 , on prepaid mail orders . They needed investment capital , and there were strong arguments against giving it to them : the high failure rate among microcomputer ...
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 |