A good book about early microcomputing is "Fire In The Valley" by Paul
Freiberger and Michael Swaine, originally published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill.
Copyright 1984, It is pretty accurate up to that point.
I think that I still have a few issues of "The People's Computer Company"
and all of the "Mark-8 Newsletter" that I need to scan in someday. Along
with a working IMSAI, and other old stuff.
73, Terry, N4TLF
-----Original Message-----
From: Cady, Fred
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 1:02 PM
To: Alan Geller via Elecraft
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] "The Elecraft Story" - other tech books
If you are into reading about technology, be sure to not miss "The
Innovators" by Walter Isaacson and "Regional Advantage" by Annalee Saxenian
(about why Silicon Valley took off and Route 50 in MA faded.) And although
somewhat lightweight, all of Malcom Gladwell's books are fun reads.
Cheer and 73,
Fred
PS: And don't forget the KE7X Elecraft books :-)
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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 10:11 AM
To: N4ZR; Alan Geller via Elecraft
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] "The Elecraft Story"
Pete,
Careful, that is darn near an antique book, but I too still reference
today, kidder did an excellent
job of capturing the ethos of that team and effort.
73 es God Bless,
Art / K0ACP
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:23 AM, N4ZR <n...@comcast.net> wrote:
Thanks, Mike - I fell prey to the old fallacy - "if I haven't seen it, it
must not exist." That said, I'd love to see something more up-to-date. It
has always intrigued me that the KPA-1500 took so long to actually enter
the market, having seen a prototype at Dayton about 10 years (or so) ago.
And of course, we're all waiting for the K4.
I still view Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine" as the best
example ever of close-up technological narrative.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 7/27/2018 11:02 AM, Mike Markowski wrote:
Pete,
In 2011 Wayne wrote up a nice history. An Elecraft wikipedia page points
to it, and I put it on a web page here:
http://udel.edu/~mm/ham/elecraft/history/ <http://udel.edu/%7Emm/ham/ele
craft/history/>
Just ignore the graph up top. Out of date ponderings!
Maybe Wayne & Eric can flesh it out, update where needed, and put it on
elecraft.com <http://elecraft.com>. :-)
73,
Mike ab3ap
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:52 AM, N4ZR <n...@comcast.net <mailto:
n...@comcast.net>> wrote:
It strikes me that an article, or even a book about this would be
welcome. Or has it already been done? If so, a reference would
be appreciated.
--
73, Pete N4ZR
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