1984 Altair 8800 ENIAC Mark-1 Steve Wozniak Apple Lisa
This book is a compendium of articles from reknown writers of the computer age with articles relating to the Altair 8800, the Apple 1 to the history of IBM's THINK.
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Note the picture above of Steve Job and Steve Wozniak together. There is also a nice picture of the Apple I hooked up.
Digital Deli
The Comprehensive, User-Lovable Menu of Computer Lore, Culture, Lifestyles and Fancy
Some thought provoking articles in this book
Binary Choices and the Tao of Home Computers by Steve Ditlea
THE HUMAN COMPUTER
POWERS OF TWO
History's Great Computer Eccentrics by Marguerite Zientara
THE PASCALINE AND THE LEIBNIZ CALCULATOR
ADA LOVELACE: THE FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMMER BY HOWARD RHEINGOLD
IN THE CARDS
CRACKING THE NAZI CODE
MODEL ONE: THE FIRST MODERN BINARY COMPUTER BY ROE R. ADAMS III
Uncle Sam and the Computer Revolution by Myron Berger
ENIAC YESTERDAY
ENIAC TODAY: R.I.P. BY BOB SCHWABACH
THE ORIGINAL BUG
COMMODORE HOPPER: THE MOTHER OF COBOL BY HOWARD RHEINGOLD
NATIONAL SCIENCE FUNDS
THE SPACE SHUTTLE'S COMPUTERS
Computer Time Line by Carol Iaciofano
Who Needs Personal Computers? by J. Presper Eckert
Solomons Memory by Les Solomon
THE FIRST DO-IT-YOURSELF PERSONAL COMPUTER BY LARRY STECKLER
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ALTAIR BY STAN VEIT
YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, MICRO BY IVAN BERGER
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ALTAIR
Though computer kit makers like Scelbi Computer Consulting, RGS Electronics and Martin Research actually preceded MITS, the Altair 8800 with its 5100 bus and Microsoft BASIC became the foundation of the personal computer industry. More Altairs were sold than any single computer ever designed up to that time (including the famous IBM 360).
Why, then, isn't MITS one of today's industry leaders? Well, perhaps because its founder, Ed Roberts, was a better engineer than businessman.
When MITS struck it rich with the Altair, the small staff-less than ten people-geared up to handle the hundreds of orders that poured in. They set up manufacturing operations, software development and customer service, and even published one of the first computer magazines, Computer Notes. But problems arose because no one had ever made as many computers of one type. MITS had neither the experience nor its own capital to do the job, and in those days there were no venture capitalists breaking down doors to offer development money. Further, though computer hobbyists and potential dealers helped out with prepaid orders, Ed Roberts made some serious marketing errors. For example, MITS insisted that Altair dealers carry no other line of computers: "Ford dealers only carry Fords," Roberts declared, "and Altair dealers will only carry Altairs." When MITS could not deliver the computers, many dealers went out of business or dropped the Altair line.
MITS eventually did produce the Altair 8080B, a really fine computer with a good disk system and lots of good software including business applications. The company never solved its cash flow problems, however, and eventually Ed Roberts sold out to the Pertec Computer Co., which supplied the Altair disk drives. Ed retired from the computer industry to raise pigs in Georgia, then later decided to go to medical school.
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