This is another outtake from my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck. In April 1983, I left Digital Equipment Corporation, where I headed the development of that company’s Professional Series Computers to join Franklin Computer as Chief Operating Officer. However, in reality, I function a the CEO. I had considered starting my own company, … Continue reading
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Was the Personal Computer Industry Inevitable?
While writing my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck, I couldn’t help but speculate on alternative realities. So much of one’s life is driven by random events. So it was easy for me to imagine how things could have unfolded differently. One of the possibilities that intrigued me was derived from the significant shift … Continue reading
The First 386 Notebook
As I wrote earlier, there were a number of sections in my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck, that I removed because they broke the flow. Eventually, they will be all available on the book’s website, http://www.wildduckflight.com. After moving from Intel’s Oregon facilities to the closest thing the company had to a headquarters in … Continue reading
Fun interview that may get me into trouble
Over the last month, I have been doing many interviews to help promote my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck, published on September 1st. One of my favorite interviews was . It is long but lots of fun. Most of my interviews have been enjoyable, but this one has a super amount of energy … Continue reading
Here is an excerpt from my book
https://builtin.com/corporate-innovation/intel-avram-miller You might enjoy it but better to buy the book at https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Wild-Duck-Improbable-Technology-ebook/dp/B098KH6XZH. Continue reading
My book has been published
If you enjoy this blog, you will enjoy my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck. It was published today. It is available as an ebook, paperback or hardcover here. I worked on this for three years. Please give me your support and reach out to those in your social network and suggest that they … Continue reading
IBM PC 40th Anniversary
My book The Flight of a Wild Duck, will be published on September 1st. Pre Orders can be placed now on Amazon. There were several sections of the book which did not make it through the final editing primarily because they broke the flow of the book. One of them was about the evolution of … Continue reading
More thoughts about the Delta
I monitor the covid numbers in Israel closely not only because I live in Israel (although I am spending the summer in California), but I think so much can be learned from the Israeli experience. Many of my friends write to me citing stories about how the Delta is raging in Israel. Not only are … Continue reading
I need a favor
As frequent readers of my blog know, I spent about three years working on a book called, The Flight of a Wild Duck. It chronicles my improbable journey through life and technology. If you enjoy my blog, I am sure you will appreciate my book. It is now available for preorder on Amazon as an … Continue reading
The effectiveness of the vaccine against the Delta
I just wrote about the Delta variant and what I term PCR disease. Now I would like to say a bit more about the variant. Once again, please be reminded that I am expressing my opinion, and they should not be taken as facts. Antivaxers are misrepresenting the data from Israel, for instance, either because … Continue reading
