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Microsoft's innovation topic/silicon-valley

IBM was rushing the production of their IBM-PC, and was in a hurry to find a suitable operating system for it. After negotiations with another company fell through, IBM turned to Microsoft's Bill Gates, who bluffed his way through negotiations with IBM management about having an operating system re…

—p.60 A People's History of Silicon Valley Tech 1.0: before the Internet (54) by Keith A. Spencer
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Microsoft's innovation topic/silicon-valley

IBM was rushing the production of their IBM-PC, and was in a hurry to find a suitable operating system for it. After negotiations with another company fell through, IBM turned to Microsoft's Bill Gates, who bluffed his way through negotiations with IBM management about having an operating system re…

—p.60 Tech 1.0: before the Internet (54) by Keith A. Spencer
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the pretty people are taking over topic/silicon-valley

[...] Tech writer Jon Evans wrote a eulogy for the Silicon Valley of yesteryear, in which he lamented that:

The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked; needed to take them apart, make them…

—p.55 Tech 1.0: before the Internet (54) by Keith A. Spencer
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the pretty people are taking over topic/silicon-valley

[...] Tech writer Jon Evans wrote a eulogy for the Silicon Valley of yesteryear, in which he lamented that:

The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked; needed to take them apart, make them…

—p.55 Tech 1.0: before the Internet (54) by Keith A. Spencer
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entrepreneurial students and Stanford faculty topic/silicon-valley

In short, the federal money that poured into Silicon Valley was due to a fear of Soviet domination in science and engineering. In the same manner, that fear led to massive increases in defense and science budgets in the United States in the postwar years. Noticing these trends, the engineering dean…

—p.43 From shellmounds to microchips (29) by Keith A. Spencer