WHERE OLD COMPUTERS ARE WELCOME
"640k [of memory] ought to
be enough for anybody"
Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, 1981
| Paul Lutus author of the Apple Writer, a word processor. |
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| Take a look of his site | Paul and his hut where he worked. For the energy there was an extension of 400m. |
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| Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the authors of the famous Visicalc software. The first version of Visicalc was made for Apple II, the success of the latter for many was due to this combination. | ||||
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Dan Bricklin biografia His site |
Bob Frankston His site My interview |
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| In the '80 | First version | |||
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| Visicalc adverts in 1979/10 | ||||
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Enrico Colombini ,
he realize the first adventure game entirely in Italian, which computer? Obviously an Apple II.
If you want on your site you can find some "things" interesting. Following are photos commented by the protagonist.
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| Mitchell Kapor The author of Lotus 1- 2 -3 and founder of Lotus Corp. together with Jim Manzi | ||||
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| Seymour Rubenstein is the author of the most famous WordStar. | ||||
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Look what group !! First row --- Robert Garner ( Sun
SPARC ); Masatoshi Shima ( Zilog Z80 ); Federico Faggin ( Zilog Z80 ) ;
Bill Mensch ( MOS Technology 6502 ); Chuck Peddle ( MOS
Technology 6502 ) |
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Do not tell you anything you read this article: I Major events of the last 25 years |
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| Bushnell the founder of Atari. | Chuck Peddle the father of 6502 | |||
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| Thomas Watson sr., founder of IBM | Federico Faggin | |||
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Bill Gates e Paul Allen, founders of Microsoft The letter open to hobbyists, 1976. |
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Microsoft components in 1978. First line from above: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane Second line from above: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin Third line from above: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. December 7, 1978. |
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| Bill Gates and Paul Allen | Paul Allen and Bill Gates among computers using their BASIC. (1977) | |||
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| Bill Gates at World Altair Computer Convention, 1976 | Bill Gates and Paul Allen at work. | |||
| Gary Kildall He wrote the CP/M then constituting Digital Research. | Tim Paterson, the author of MS-DOS. | |||
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| Philippe Kahn , He wrote the Pascal Turbo and gave birth to Borland. | William Mensch Already involved in the 6502 project, he then realized 65816. | |||
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| Alan Shugart , guided tThe team that brings IBM to the creation of the first hard drive. A few years later, we are at the end of the 1970s, he realizes the First floppy disk drive. | Robert Metcalfe, the father of Ethernet. For other info go here . | |||
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| Saymour Cray | Dennis Hayes, his standard is still in use. | |||
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The CPU's parent, INTEL 4004 . It was realized in 1971, initially for Busicom, a Japanese company. The creation of this computer was led by Federico Faggin. |
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The technical features of the 4004 are:
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| L ' Altair 8800 , how come a computer on the character page? Is the beginning of the personal computer revolution. The computer in the cover does not exist yet, but the MITS after the release of the magazine will receive hundreds of requests. People wanted it at all costs, together with the order also sent the money, some will wait for one year before they can receive it. | ||||
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January 1975 Other historic magazines |
Altair 8800b | |||
| Other things, a bit of everything in this computer | ||||
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| Lee Felsenstein one of the homebrew computer club animators, Sol designer and later than Osborne1. | The SOL20 | |||
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| Robert Marsh and Lee Felsenstein, founders of Technology Processor. | ||||
| Ads aboutn computers with famous people | ||||
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Super complete timeline. |
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| The list of programmers of the Classic Game | ||||
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The hackers |
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John Draper, said Capitain Crunch. The witch of telephone hacking, condemned several times for illegal phone lines. He named his name for the Capitain Crunch cereals, he discovered that the whistle they gave in the box allowed him to take the line without paying. |
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| In the '70 | Today | |||
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| The Captain Crunch cereal box | ||||
The videogames |
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| The Sierra Online produced the best games in the eighties, creating the figure of the millionaire programmer. Founders Ken and Roberta Williams . | ||||
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| Ken Williams | Roberta Williams | |||
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| Roberta Williams made one of the first graphic adventure games Mystery House for Apple II. | ||||
| Among the many who worked at Sierra Online, one of the prominent programmers was John Harris., | ||||
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| John Harris, author of Frogger and Jawbreaker | ||||
| Doug Carlston, founder of Broderbund. | The Broderbund's most famous game? Lode Runner, oddly the Sierra Online did it escape. |
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