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...personal computers were largely new to its users—and the Harvard Computer Society was founded to help support user groups for the new IBM, Apple, and Compaq systems...
Doerr's journey to the Roosevelt Room is the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. Born in St. Louis, Mo., he got his first tech job in 1974 as an Intel engineer and went on to become a prescient bankroller of such companies as Google, Compaq and Amazon.com He later helped fund TechNet, the valley's first major Washington lobbying effort, and became close friends with then Vice President Al Gore, who has since become a partner at Kleiner Perkins. Doerr's enthusiasm and vision have been welcomed by the Obama team, just as they were by the Clinton Administration...
...many outsiders. The PC business had boomed, after all, in part because the software (that is, the operating system) was separated from the hardware. "PC compatibility" meant that anyone could build a box that ran Microsoft's Windows operating system, and that initially made many companies enormously successful, from Compaq to Dell. But it also created a race to the bottom as hardware makers were forced to continually offer consumers more bells and whistles for less money. At the same time, Microsoft's operating system, which had to support an enormous and diffuse ecosystem of computers, became increasingly clunky, hard...
...Previously worked for rivals IBM and Compaq, and served as COO of computer reseller Intelligent Electronics...
...Cook heads Apple's Macintosh division and prior to joining Apple was VP of Corporate Materials at Compaq. He also spent more than a decade at IBM in leadership in manufacturing and distribution...