Wazniaks And Jobs: History Of The Personal Computer

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"History of the Personal Computer"

It was a pleasant spring morning to sit out on the porch and read chapter 3 and 4 from the course material. Much of this history I had either lived through in the 70's or been exposed to at the Intel Museum's Santa Clara California. As I understand it, the Museum was started as a place to put all of Gordon Moore stuff.

In chapter 4 the story of Wazniaks and Jobs early years, was also amusing. I read the same story about the blue box in the early 70's. Since my friends dad had a electronics repair shop we had access to an oscilloscope, tone generators, and tape recorders, we played around with the concepts. We had no real need call long distances, so this was mostly a intellectual exercise.

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