Gareth Edwards is a digital strategist, writer, and historian. He unearths Silicon Valley’s tech history in his monthly column, The Crazy Ones.
The untold story of Lore Harp McGovern
The untold story of Jack Tramiel, Holocaust survivor and home computing's first king
How Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry—and then walked away
The reinvention of X
How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure
Adam Osborne was the master of momentum—until it all came crashing down
Companies have no way back from a sudden loss of trust
What happens when you breach the trust thermocline
Don Estridge broke all of Big Blue's rules to create the home computer. The company would never forgive him for it.
Compaq’s Rod Canion broke Big Blue’s hold on the PC market—and changed computing forever
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