Comments on: HIGH TECH, HIGH RISK, AND HIGH LIFE IN Silicon Valley

By: Casandro

Casandro — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:42:09 +0000

@LightningRose: Yes, but that’s a fairly boring program.

Of course on contemporary systems it’s:
while true
do
echo Hello World
done

By: LightningRose

LightningRose — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:50:32 +0000

Casandro, just typing the first line will get you a working program, without the infinite loop.

By: Casandro

Casandro — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:46:31 +0000

What is amazing is how simple it was back then to programm a computer. Just typing in:
10 print “Barbara”
20 goto 10

would get you a working program.

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:29:51 +0000

In the photo of the SLAC on the last page, you can see a freeway overpass in the distance. That’s I-280. The overpass was built before the SLAC itself, in anticipation.

By: slim

slim — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:04:32 +0000

I notice that Elisabeth Esparza on page 167 seems to be working on a sheet of styrofoam with no static protection at all. Tsk, Tsk.

By: Casandro

Casandro — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:13:16 +0000

I wonder how many of those chips still worked at the moment the photograph was taken.

By: xritl

xritl — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:15:35 +0000

Interesting that when Bob Noyce or Jerry Sanders is referred to a second time, it’s as “Noyce” or “Sanders,” but Sandy Kurtzig becomes “Sandy.”