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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

I didn’t recognize the behavior at the time, but anyone who loves technology and gadgets has at one time or another has bought a technology toy – USB memory sticks, iPod Shuffles, umbrellas with LED lights, alarm clocks that talked, Flip Video Cameras, etc. We accidently had a product with the Novelty Effect.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in.

Steve Blank

Again Stanford technology would solve these challenges. As a microwave preamp, it had high gain, low noise and extremely wide bandwidth. This was a two-pronged challenge: the U.S. It was perfect for a new generation of ELINT receivers to be built into the Ferret planes searching for signals around the Soviet Union.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of.

Steve Blank

While the Klystrons of the 1950’s had too narrow and bandwidth and were too large for airborne use, they could be scaled up to generate megawatts of power and were used to power the U.S. Fred Terman and David Packard of HP joined Varian’s board.) Blog at WordPress.com.