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... sold half that number in a single afternoon early in the rush . By the time a year had passed MITS had sold 5,000 Altairs . The company was not content , however , just to let the orders roll in . Over the next two years MITS set up a ...
... sold half that number in a single afternoon early in the rush . By the time a year had passed MITS had sold 5,000 Altairs . The company was not content , however , just to let the orders roll in . Over the next two years MITS set up a ...
Page 59
... sold a computer . Its history was about as different from Apple's as one can imagine . Born in 1910 , Charles Tandy had spent a year at the Harvard Business School before joining the navy in World War II . Once out , he went to work for ...
... sold a computer . Its history was about as different from Apple's as one can imagine . Born in 1910 , Charles Tandy had spent a year at the Harvard Business School before joining the navy in World War II . Once out , he went to work for ...
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... sold separately from its computers . That opened up one set of opportunities . The rapid growth of the minicomputer industry , whose members never pro- vided software with their machines , was opening up a sec- ond . Finally , the ...
... sold separately from its computers . That opened up one set of opportunities . The rapid growth of the minicomputer industry , whose members never pro- vided software with their machines , was opening up a sec- ond . Finally , the ...
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