Negative Space: long life

In this verdant place where prune orchards and wildflowers blossom even in February, something else has burst into full bloom: 1,000 innovative science and high-technology companies flying flags like Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Syntex, Varian, Atari, Andros, and Zoecon… new companies are continually being formed in the valley, and young men continue to get rich. Spreading applications of microcomputers, in particular, have recently given rise to a whole battery of companies that manufacture home computers—among them Apple Computer, Inc., Video-Brain Computer Co., and Cromemco—as well as chains of computer stores, such as Computerland and ByteShops. — Gene Bylinsky and Zhenya Lane (“Wizards of Silicon Valley”, Omni, August, 1979)