Slashdot: FeaturesNews for nerds, stuff that mattersSilicon Valley Culture Originated In Radio Days- September 30, 2007 yroJJory writes to recommend a piece up at SFGate on the history of Silicon Valley and its roots in radio, accompanied by some great old photos. "When the Traitorous Eight founders of Fairchild, as they're sometimes called, held their hush-hush meeting in San Francisco, they had reason to fear discovery — but no way to know that by quitting safe jobs for a risky startup, they would earn a place among what Stanford University historian Leslie Berlin calls the 'Founding Fathers of Silicon...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotFeatures/~3/163431855/article.pl |