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+-   High-tech culture of SV originally due to Radio-> on Sunday September 30 2007, @01:32PM yroJJory

Submitted by yroJJory on Sunday September 30 2007, @01:32PM
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yroJJory writes "SFGate has a interesting piece on the history of Silicon Valley and its roots in radio. It begins: "When the Traitorous Eight, 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 Valley.

Roughly 30 years before Hewlett and Packard started work in their garage, and almost 50 years before the Traitorous Eight created Fairchild, the basic culture of Silicon Valley was forming around radio: engineers who hung out in hobby clubs, brainstormed and borrowed equipment, spun new companies out of old ones, and established a meritocracy ruled by those who made electronic products cheaper, faster and better.

An interesting read with some great photos"
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