Hi I’ve just received this on another mailing list. It looks interesting but I’ve not yet had time to read it carefully:

http://steveblank.com/secret-history/

The Secret History of Silicon Valley – Backstory • Part 1: The Vietnam War • Part 2: B-52’s and the Soviet Air Defense System • Part 3: Bill Perry/ESL and the Cold War • Part 4: Undisclosed Locations • Part 5: Silicon Valley, the 2nd 100 years • Part 6: Stanford, Terman and WWII • Part 7: Stanford, Terman and the Cold War • Part 8: Stanford and the rise of Cold War Entrepreneurship • Part 9: Stanford and Electronic Intelligence • Part 10: Stanford and Weapons Systems • Part 11: The Rise of Venture Capital • Part 12: The First Valley IPO’s • Part 13: Startups with Nuclear Missiles • Part 14: Spy Satellites in Silicon Valley • Part 15: Lockheed – Silicon Valley largest employer • Part 16: Balloon Wars

Cheers Brian Randell -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 FAX = +44 191 208 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell