Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal ComputerChronicles History of Computer Pioneers & the Industry They Founded |
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... write a program , and large computers automatically take care of these tasks by the use of programs called operating systems . To programmers writing in a mainframe language like PL / I , the operating system is a given . It is a part ...
... write a program , and large computers automatically take care of these tasks by the use of programs called operating systems . To programmers writing in a mainframe language like PL / I , the operating system is a given . It is a part ...
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... write programs . MITS initially supplied no significant software at all . A typical response of a computer hobby- ist to the Popular Electronics article was ( 1 ) to send for an Altair , and when it arrived ( and had been successfully ...
... write programs . MITS initially supplied no significant software at all . A typical response of a computer hobby- ist to the Popular Electronics article was ( 1 ) to send for an Altair , and when it arrived ( and had been successfully ...
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... write the software to read from and write to the disk . At this point he called in Randy Wigginton to help . Woz wanted a formatter , a program that would write special non - data to the disk , essentially wiping it clean to set it up ...
... write the software to read from and write to the disk . At this point he called in Randy Wigginton to help . Woz wanted a formatter , a program that would write special non - data to the disk , essentially wiping it clean to set it up ...
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 |