VCF West: Sphere 1: The First Modern Microcomputer — Ben Zotto

Far from California’s homebrew counterculture, a visionary outside Salt Lake City created a fully integrated computer in 1975. Mike Wise’s scrappy company, with its sharp team and big heart, vanished only two years later, plagued by delays and other challenges. Sphere is today remembered unfairly as a footnote, but Ben will make the case that this early micro looked firmly forward from the hobbyist world into serious computing. A historical and technical presentation, including a demonstration of Sphere’s ambitious platform. Slides can be found here: https://vcfed.org/wp-content/uploads/... A presentation at Vintage Computer Festival West 2022 August 7, 2022 at The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA #vcfwest #vintagecomputerfestival #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputerfederation