Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal ComputerChronicles History of Computer Pioneers & the Industry They Founded |
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Page 50
... things going than a company the size of ours should have had going . " The memory boards still in the field were not the ... thing is clear . The channels of communication between upper - level employees and the president were not always ...
... things going than a company the size of ours should have had going . " The memory boards still in the field were not the ... thing is clear . The channels of communication between upper - level employees and the president were not always ...
Page 60
... things were really small business machines , even if the damn things did weigh 80 pounds and barely fit on a desk . " Technologically , the IMSAI computer was no breakthrough . It was essen- tially a copy of the Altair with some ...
... things were really small business machines , even if the damn things did weigh 80 pounds and barely fit on a desk . " Technologically , the IMSAI computer was no breakthrough . It was essen- tially a copy of the Altair with some ...
Page 65
... thing of Building Two versus Building One . Todd Fisher Building One and Building Two Todd Fisher liked to fix things . When high school ended and many of his classmates went to college or engineering school , Fisher drove to the Air ...
... thing of Building Two versus Building One . Todd Fisher Building One and Building Two Todd Fisher liked to fix things . When high school ended and many of his classmates went to college or engineering school , Fisher drove to the Air ...
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 |