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Page 36
... interface between the two devices . He and Roberts talked about computers in general and the Altair - Cyclops interface in particular until dawn , when Melen hurried back to the airport to catch an eight o'clock flight to San Francisco ...
... interface between the two devices . He and Roberts talked about computers in general and the Altair - Cyclops interface in particular until dawn , when Melen hurried back to the airport to catch an eight o'clock flight to San Francisco ...
Page 38
... interface boards to allow the computer to be connected to a Teletype - would have to wait . MITS would ship the box and CPU board with 256 bytes of memory and the front panel and nothing else until the backlog was cleared . As delivered ...
... interface boards to allow the computer to be connected to a Teletype - would have to wait . MITS would ship the box and CPU board with 256 bytes of memory and the front panel and nothing else until the backlog was cleared . As delivered ...
Page 46
... interface board , intended to perform this feat , had taken on a life of its own and become a video interface board for displaying text and pictures generated by the Altair in color on a television monitor . The Dazzler , as they called ...
... interface board , intended to perform this feat , had taken on a life of its own and become a video interface board for displaying text and pictures generated by the Altair in color on a television monitor . The Dazzler , as they called ...
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 |