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... thought the company was constantly changing , taking risks , and scoring some big successes . Millard thrived on ... thought that Marketing and Sales should both report to one person : often Seymour Rubinstein . Lohse and Rubinstein ...
... thought the company was constantly changing , taking risks , and scoring some big successes . Millard thrived on ... thought that Marketing and Sales should both report to one person : often Seymour Rubinstein . Lohse and Rubinstein ...
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... thought he knew someone like that . Felsenstein had made it clear that he did not want to join Processor Technol ... thought , was pathetic . It was a $ 3000 job , and Felsenstein , the poor goof , was offering to do it for $ 50 . Marsh ...
... thought he knew someone like that . Felsenstein had made it clear that he did not want to join Processor Technol ... thought , was pathetic . It was a $ 3000 job , and Felsenstein , the poor goof , was offering to do it for $ 50 . Marsh ...
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... thought . Heiser , a systems analyst , had recently spent $ 14,000 building a video word processor for a low - cost minicomputer . When the Altair came out , he saw that he could construct a similar processor on it for about $ 4000 . He ...
... thought . Heiser , a systems analyst , had recently spent $ 14,000 building a video word processor for a low - cost minicomputer . When the Altair came out , he saw that he could construct a similar processor on it for about $ 4000 . He ...
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 |