CS- TRIUMPH OF THE NERDS

Arthur Rock

first ever venture capitalist; originally funded intel and apple

Bill Gates

co-founder of microsoft with paul allen; created BASIC translator for the microcomputer/Altair 8800; $13 billion

Bob Frankston

co-founder of visicalc (invisible calculator); wrote the actual computer code

Chris Espinosa (spelled with a z in class though?)

worked at apple at age 14 (employee #8); did apple 2 demos in jobs' garage; still works there today (senior employee)

Dan Bricklin

co-founder of visicalc with bob frankston; harvard business grad; designed the program for visicalc

Ed Roberts

founder of MITS; built Altair 8800; first ever PC

Edwin Chin

"nerd" interested in tech since age 6; was 10 in the documentary at a technology junk fair thing

Gordon Moore

co-founder of intel; $3 billion; collaborative work system

Grace Hopper

US navy cap; invented english language that computers could translate into binary; COBAL; pioneer for software; associated w "bug"

Graham Spencer

chief programmer for Architext software

Harry Garland

co-founder of cromemco

Jim Warren

founder of west coast computer faire 1978; hot-tub interview guy in doc

Paul Allen

co-founder of microsoft w/ Bill Gates; owns Portland Trailblazers; $8 billion

Robert Cringely

host of documentary

Steve Jobs

co-founder of apple; the "visionary" behind its success; saw the potential of apple 2 and wanted to sell asap; wears black turtlenecks

Steve Wozniak

co-founder of apple; brought his pc to homebrew meetings; decreased # of chips needed for apple 2; "mozart of digital design"

the personal computer industry is the _ largest in the world

third

MITS

company started in Albuquerque NM; originally sold calculators; almost went out of business; sold computer kits (altair 8800)

Silicon Valley

southern california/bay area; got its name from the silicon pad underneath transistors of the famous microchip; where all computer nerds come from (essentially); harbors tech industry

where did most tech guys in silicon valley work on their inventions?

their garages

architext software

created by 6 stanford grads; cubicles

mainframe computer

computer the size of a desk; processes numerical data; generally in large businesses; required special permission to access

program

set of instructions for a computer

COBOL

early language used for business data processing, created by Grace Hopper

FORTRAN

one of the original high level languages, short for Formula Translation; (hidden figures data processing IBM callback?)

BASIC

more user friendly computer language created after COBAL and FORTRAN

transistor

a small electronic device used in a circuit as an amplifier or switch

Intel

invented microprocessor chip; powers 85% of all computers; responsible for laid back tech work styles; could've invented pc

number of first chip in pc

8080

pc model number that the first microchip went into

8800 Altair

Popular electronics

Magazine that covered the first PC powered by Intel's microprocessor

homebrew computer club

computing club at stanford, inventor of open source computing, Steve Jobs and Wozniak attended the meetings

Albuquerque, New Mexico sits on a boundary that could eventually place it

Where a lot of the work for the first PC and microcomputer happened

Altair

computer kit sold by MITS; Altair model 2 is the oldest (model 1 was lost in mail); pretty useless as binary had to be manually inputed

what did altair need to become more useful?

a BASIC translator; paul allen and bill gates helped invent this

why did bill gates drop out of Harvard?

he thought the PC industry was rapidly expanding; wanted to "jump the gun"

where did the apple 2 launch?

west coast computer faire (1978); Jim Allen got rich off of it

Blue Box

first company Steve Jobs and Wozniak owned; devices that would enter tones into your phone; could direct phone company to direct your calls anywhere in the world

differences between apple 1 and apple 2?

apple 2 had a case and keyboard and was more functional than the primitive apple 1

time between altair and apple 1?

2 years

killer application

applications that would help a product become more commercially successful

killer application for apple 2

VisiCalc (invisible calculator)

VisiCalc

first spreadsheet program; sold like crazy amongst accounting guys

how much did VisiCalc sell for?

$100; Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston made barely any money off of it

how much was steve jobs worth at 23, 24, and 25?

1 million; 10 million; 100 million

what allowed for the fast development of the PC?

the "sharing" of knowledge through the homebrew computer club + the counterculture of the 60's and people's desire to be apart of something different/new

Apple Computer

first every mass market PC company