Building One and Building Two
Building One was primarily the administrative building. Building Two was the production building. There was always this thing of Building Two versus Building One.
–Todd Fischer, IMSAI computer repairman and entrepreneur
Todd Fischer liked to fix things.
When high school ended and many of his classmates went to college or engineering school, Fischer headed to the Air Force recruitment center to enlist. The Air Force, in turn, taught him to repair electronic equipment. Fischer valued the training, but didn’t want to make the Air Force his career. So, when his hitch was up, Fischer went to work for IBM repairing typewriters and keypunch machines. He quit in 1967 after working there only briefly. It wasn’t that ...
Get Fire in the Valley, 3rd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
