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Fire in the Valley, 3rd Edition
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Fire in the Valley, 3rd Edition

by Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger
October 2014
Beginner to intermediate
424 pages
12h 43m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Home Rule

The first part of the meeting we were involved in open combat with Intel. Intel was out to torpedo any standardization effort on the S-100 bus.

–George Morrow, founder of Morrow’s Microstuf

Although the spirit of sharing was well established in the early days of the microcomputer industry, its participants had a lot to learn about working together. One thing that accelerated the learning process was fear.

The Big Boys

A continuing concern in the developing microcomputing industry was that “the big boys” would come and spoil all the fun. “The big boys” sometimes meant IBM and the other mainframe-computer and minicomputer companies, but mostly the reference was to such companies as Commodore and other electronics companies that ...

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