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Rosen introduced Jobs and Apple to people at Morgan Stanley, and the company took Apple’s stock public in December of 1980, a watershed moment for the personal computer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

And he’s naming it for the most-infamous personal computer in American political history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Laptop chipmakers such as Intel and AMD should be worried about their new rival Nvidia, experts say, after the US hardware titan announced Monday a push into the personal computer market.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Doerr’s timeline starts in 1980 with the personal computer and microchip revolution, followed by the browser and the internet, the iPhone and cloud computing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

But then—boom! — the personal computer revolution happened, and they had their ten thousand hours in.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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