The comments below about Apple, Wozniak, Jobs, et al are right. Those stories have been done to death. There were a lot of other people not at Apple who were making fun, vital contributions to the PC industry, and I'm working on a post about another one that almost no one remembers (teaser).
A Silicon Valley legend was Dennis Barnhart [1], who crashed the Ferrari that he'd bought with his IPO money for Eagle Computer (remember them? I thought not.)
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The comments below about Apple, Wozniak, Jobs, et al are right. Those stories have been done to death. There were a lot of other people not at Apple who were making fun, vital contributions to the PC industry, and I'm working on a post about another one that almost no one remembers (teaser).
A Silicon Valley legend was Dennis Barnhart [1], who crashed the Ferrari that he'd bought with his IPO money for Eagle Computer (remember them? I thought not.)
[1] https://https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/business/corporat...