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remember-early-computer-companies.htm.
[16] Littman, Once Upon a Time in ComputerLand, 127-128 and 132;
Stan Veit, Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer, 38.
[17] Stan Veit, Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer, 18-19,
26.
[18] Carl Helmers, "On Entering Our Fourth Year,"
BYTE (September 1978), 6;
Wayne Green, "How BYTE Started," BYTE (September 1975), 6, 96;
Jack Rubin, "Interview with Nat Wadsworth and Robert Findley of
SCELBI Computer Consulting" (April 22, 1985),
https://www.scelbi.com/history-jack-rubin-interview.
[19] Green, "How BYTE Started"; Carl Helmers at Vintage Computer
Festival Southeast 1.0, April 20, 2013
(
http://www.vintage.org/2013/southeast/session.php);
Freiberger and Swaine, Fire in the Valley, 215-217.
[20] The soap opera continued with Viriginia re-marrying and becoming
co-publisher with her new husband Manfred Peschke, then later
marrying a third time to Gordon Williamson, who wrote a hit piece
against Wayne Green's 1988 candidacy in New Hampshire's
(non-binding) Republican vice-presidential primary. Harry
McCracken, "More Computer Magazine Lore: A 1983 Nastygram from
Wayne Green," Technologizer, January 21, 2024
(
https://technologizer.com/2024/01/21/
more-computer-magazine-lore-a-1983-nastygram-from-wayne-green/);
Mike Recht, "Visionary Green Lives in a Whirlwind of Controversy,"
The Lewiston (Maine) Daily Sun (July 28, 1988).
[21] Gareth Edwards, "The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs's Greatest
Rival," Every (March 4, 2024),
https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/
the-rise-and-fall-of-steve-jobs-s-greatest-rival.
[22] "Interface Age," Apple II History
(
https://www.apple2history.org/history/ah20/);
Stan Veit, Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer, 271-272.
[23] Carl Helmers, "How I Was Born 300 Years Ahead of My Time," BYTE
(April 1977), 6.
[24] Mike Wilbur and David Fylstra,
"Homebrewery vs. the Software Priesthood," BYTE (October 1976),
90. David's brother Dan had worked with BYTE editor Carl Helmers at
Intermetrics in Cambridge, and would go on to greater fame, as we
will soon see. Thomas Haigh, "Oral History of Dan Fylstra,"
Computer History Museum (May 7, 2004), 8.
[25] Carl Helmers, "Come One, Come All!", BYTE (September 1976), 6.
[26] Fred Moore, "It's a Hobby," Home Brew Computer Club Newsletter,
no. 4, (June 7, 1975), 1.
[27] Jim Warren, "Editor's Preface," Dr. Dobb's Journal of
Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia: Running Light Without
Overbyte, v. 1. (Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden Book Co., 1977), 3.
[28] David Bunnell, "Memo from the Publisher," Personal Computing
(March/April 1977), 6.
[29] Rodgers and Larsen, Silicon Valley Fever, 4;
Freiberger and Swaine, Fire in the Valley¸77-78.
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