Seymour Rubenstein
Scott Adams
- 1977 - Jonathan Rotenberg founds Boston Computer Society
- David Bunnell begins publishing Personal Computing
- Seymour Rubinstein joins IMSAI as software product marketing manager
- The first ComputerLand franchise store opens in Morristown, New Jersey, under the name ComputerShack
- Apple Computer opens its first offices in Cupertino, California
- Lee Felsenstein (with others) founds Community Memory
- The first West Coast Computer Faire is held in San Francisco, California
- Apple introduces the Apple II
- Commodore introduces the PET computer
- Ed Roberts sells MITS to Pertec
- Tandy/Radio Shack announces its first TRS-80 microcomputer
- Scott Adams founds Adventure International
- Bob miner, Ed Oates, and Larry Ellison found Software Development Laboratories (later Oracle Corporation)
- 1978 - Apple introduces and begins shipping disk drives for the Apple II
- Apple initiates Lisa research and development project
- Bill Joy and others develop BSD version of Unix operating system
- 1979 - IMSAI files for bankruptcy
- Steve Jobs visits Xerox PARC
- Processor Technology closes
- MicroPro releases WordStar
- Tandy/Radio Shack announces the TRS-80 Model II
- IMSAI closes its doors
- Personal Software introduces VisiCalc