Around this month in 1974, the microcomputer industry took off. Can you imagine that 50 years has passed? It all started with the Popular Electronics cover photo and accompanying article of the Altair 8800 in January 1975. That led to the homebrew computer club and the computers with the early Intel 8080 microprocessors and S100 bus. The club led to the first orders of the Altair 8800 , followed by the Imsai 8080 competitor, which is recognizable in the movie Wargames. The homebrew club led to the Apple computer, and the rest is history. (The copy of the rare magazine in the photo is my own). Members of the classic computing community seem to agree that April 1974 marks the launch of the Altair with the first commercial release. Hence, before this month is over, I would like to share a toast with all the computer enthusiasts out there that we ought to thank the month of April 1974 for all the computing machinery that we use every day. #tech #computinghistory #retrocomputing
「 Early in his time at Stanford, Clark worked on a project with Xerox PARC with support from ARPA to develop three dimensional graphics. This led to the creation of the Geometry Engine. In “The Geometry Engine: A VLSI Geometry System for Graphics,” Clark also makes specific reference to Marc Hannah and Lynn Conway as being valuable contributors to the effort 」
The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
