In 1994, the Silicon Valley Engineering Council inducted Friedl into its Hall of Fame, calling him the "chief architect and inventor of the world's first personal computer." Friedl, who died in March ...

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the dead-tree era of computer journalism is officially over. It lasted almost half a century—and was quite a run. I spent most of that time at PC World, which I joined in late 1994 at almost precisely ...