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... Roberts began wondering if he couldn't make a fully assembled computer that anyone could buy and set up by themselves . The surprising thing was that the floodgates Roberts proceeded to open hadn't already burst - and that no one even ...
... Roberts began wondering if he couldn't make a fully assembled computer that anyone could buy and set up by themselves . The surprising thing was that the floodgates Roberts proceeded to open hadn't already burst - and that no one even ...
Page 51
... Roberts's job was to assemble the compo- nents necessary for all these tasks and figure out how to fit them together . By the fall of 1974 he had constructed a prototype . It worked , and he shipped it off to his friend Les Solomon at ...
... Roberts's job was to assemble the compo- nents necessary for all these tasks and figure out how to fit them together . By the fall of 1974 he had constructed a prototype . It worked , and he shipped it off to his friend Les Solomon at ...
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... Roberts had told his nervous banker he expected to sell 800 kits in the first year . That , he added , would begin to turn the com- pany's fortunes around . In fact , he sold half that number in a single afternoon early in the rush . By ...
... Roberts had told his nervous banker he expected to sell 800 kits in the first year . That , he added , would begin to turn the com- pany's fortunes around . In fact , he sold half that number in a single afternoon early in the rush . By ...
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