Missing Link: Homebrew Computer Club, nucleus of the digital revolution
In March 1975, a few technology tinkerers meet in a garage in Silicon Valley and found a computer club. Apple would not have ...
Design Engineering10d
The highs and lows of CAD since the 1970s
CAD for personal computers first emerged in the late 1970s. The first microcomputer (as they were then called) was 1975’s ...
What happened at the Homebrew Computer Club 50 years ago: Apple was born, and a revolution began
In the club's garage in Menlo Park, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak showed off the first Apple computer. Bill Gates was ...
Herald Journal19d
Viewpoints HJ
It was 1861, and war had broken out on American soil. With grievances over government representation, federal overreach, and slave ownership, several southern states seceded from the Union to form ...
Yahoo Finance19d
Bill Gates Spent A Year Trying To Avoid Dropping Out—Here's Why He Couldn't Wait Any Longer
The urgency began in 1974 when Gates’ high school friend and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen showed him a Popular Electronics magazine featuring the Altair 8800, described as the “world’s ...
AOL20d
‘It’s happening without us’: Microsoft is worth $3 trillion, but Bill Gates still wouldn’t advise dropping out of college — here’s why
He was spurred to drop out of Harvard and pursue his dream when he saw an issue of Popular Electronics featuring the first commercially successful personal computer in the U.S. — the Altair 8800.
Yahoo Finance20d
Microsoft is worth $3 trillion, but one-time Harvard dropout Bill Gates wouldn’t advise skipping school
He was spurred to drop out of Harvard and pursue his dream when he saw an issue of Popular Electronics featuring the first commercially successful personal computer in the U.S. — the Altair 8800.
NBC New York23d
At 18, Bill Gates turned down multiple tech job offers—all before creating Microsoft: ‘That was kind of an ego boost'
It would only be a few months later when Allen burst into Gates' Harvard dorm room carrying a copy of Popular Electronics that featured "the world's first minicomputer," an Altair 8800 ...
moneywise24d
Bill Gates Still Regrets Dropping Out of Harvard
He was spurred to drop out of Harvard and pursue his dream when he saw an issue of Popular Electronics featuring the first commercially successful personal computer in the U.S. — the Altair 8800.
NDTV24d
"Had To Give In To The Inevitable": Bill Gates Says He Regrets Quitting Harvard
The magazine featured a cover story about the Altair 8800, a computer kit that had the potential to revolutionise the industry. At the time, Mr Gates and Mr Allen that if they could create a ...