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Page 63
... sell it to auto dealers throughout the country . Millard knew they couldn't fail . He wasn't going to let the opportunity evanesce . Taking the auto dealer's money , he started a company called IMSAI Manufacturing for the express ...
... sell it to auto dealers throughout the country . Millard knew they couldn't fail . He wasn't going to let the opportunity evanesce . Taking the auto dealer's money , he started a company called IMSAI Manufacturing for the express ...
Page 152
... sell to manufacturers , as Kildall , Eubanks , and Gates had been doing , nor would it sell by mail to end - users , as Shrayer , Cooper , and Parson did . The number of computer stores was not large , but it was growing . Rubinstein ...
... sell to manufacturers , as Kildall , Eubanks , and Gates had been doing , nor would it sell by mail to end - users , as Shrayer , Cooper , and Parson did . The number of computer stores was not large , but it was growing . Rubinstein ...
Page 184
... sell Altairs . We wanted to solve problems . Dick Heiser The First Retailer On June 15 , 1975 , 125 hobbyists and novices collected in the recreation room of the Laurel Tree Apartments in Miraleste , California . They had been brought ...
... sell Altairs . We wanted to solve problems . Dick Heiser The First Retailer On June 15 , 1975 , 125 hobbyists and novices collected in the recreation room of the Laurel Tree Apartments in Miraleste , California . They had been brought ...
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 |