| 词条 | Bill Godbout |
| 释义 |
| name = Bill Godbout | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|10|2}} | birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|11|8|1939|10|2}} | death_place = Concow, California, USA | residence = Concow, California | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | known_for = | website = }}Bill Godbout (October 2, 1939 – November 8, 2018) was an early computer pioneer and entrepreneur known for manufacturing and selling computer equipment, parts, and electronic kits in Silicon Valley, during the 1970s and 1980s.[1][2] He and his company, Godbout Electronics (and later CompuPro and Viasyn), were very influential in the early years of the personal computer market.[3][4] Together with George Morrow, he worked on the IEEE-696 better known as the very popular S-100 bus.[5] He is featured in the book The Silicon Boys, 1999 by David A. Kaplan about the pioneers of Silicon Valley.[6] Early lifeHe was born on October 2, 1939 in Providence, Rhode Island.[7] CareerAfter college, he went straight into a job at IBM, although he left to pursue the use of the Intel 8080 microprocessor. In the 1970s, he established Godbout Electronics in the San Francisco Bay area, out of a Quonset hut at Oakland International Airport.[7] The New York Times called it a "popular electronics store."[7] According to the Vintage Computer Federation, he was "a legend in the S-100 community for his 1970s-1980s work at Godbout Electronics and CompuPro."[8] For his store, he purchased bulk discarded electronics largely from military suppliers.[7] Godbout "sold chips and memory boards by mail and did business with developers on a handshake basis."[9] After renaming the company CompuPro, he worked with George Morrow to develop the S-100 data bus, the IEEE-696. The s-100 bus was sold as part of the Altair 8800 kit machine.[7] Godbout manufactured S-100 compatible cards, which "formed the backbone of early systems like the Altair 8800 and homebrew machines, allowing techies to interface their processors and memory with peripherals and form useful microcomputers."[7] In the 1980s, Godbout focused on networking and moved his company, renamed Viasyn, to Hayward, California. He was chairman of the business. Viasyn focused on custom computing equipment for “things like medical offices, the early electronic music scene, and even niche areas like elevator control systems."[7] Personal life and deathNear the end of his life, he lived in the community of Concow, California with his wife Karen. The couple had a daughter, Brandi.[7] Godbout was a keen pilot, and would often fly planes with his friend Gary Kildall.[7] Godbout was killed on November 8, 2018 when the Camp Fire razed his home and workshop in Concow.[10][11] He was survived by his wife and daughter.[12] References1. ^http://www.imsai.net/history/quinn/quinn-1.htm the Surplus Connection 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://opencollector.org/history/homebrew/Chapter9.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-07-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091114063607/http://opencollector.org/history/homebrew/Chapter9.html |archivedate=2009-11-14 |df= }} Selling surplus parts 3. ^{{cite journal | last = Shea | first = Tom | title = Q&A: William Godbout | journal = InfoWorld | volume = 6 | issue = 21 | pages = 64 | date = May 21, 1984 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uS4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64 | issn = 0199-6649}} 4. ^{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1985-04/1985_04_BYTE_10-04_Artificial_Intelligence#page/n351/mode/2up | title=Over the Moat | work=BYTE | date=April 1985 | accessdate=14 February 2015 | author=Pournelle, Jerry | pages=355}} 5. ^http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/s100bus.html the development of the S-100 bus 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.namebase.org/xgli/Bill-Godbout.html |title=Bill Godbout |author= |date= |work=NameBase |publisher= |accessdate=2012-01-20}}{{dead link|date=February 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} 7. ^{{cite news|title=A ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ Life: The Victims of the California Wildfires|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/wildfire-victims.html|accessdate=November 19, 2018|publisher=The New York Times|date=November 14, 2018}} 8. ^{{cite news|title=Camp Fire: Searching for the missing, remembering the dead — now at 56|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/14/camp-fire-searching-for-the-missing-remembering-the-dead/|accessdate=November 19, 2018|publisher=The Mercury News|date=November 15, 2018}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-g5QDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT176&lpg=PT176&dq=%22bill+godbout%22&source=bl&ots=1w871PlVjg&sig=VJkeAvkCyMmFurU-1gcCCyNxT7g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidvKfD-uDeAhUEL30KHUl9COMQ6AEwG3oECDMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22bill%20godbout%22&f=false|accessdate=|publisher=Pragmatic Bookshelf|date=October 20, 2014}} 10. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/18/bill_godbout_obituary/?ICID=ref_fark|title=RIP Bill Godbout: Cali wildfire claims the life of master maverick of microcomputers |website=The Register|date=November 18, 2018|language=en|access-date=November 19, 2018}} 11. ^{{Cite web|url=http://vcfed.org/wp/2018/11/13/r-i-p-bill-godbout-79/|title=R.I.P. Bill Godbout, 79 – Vintage Computer Federation|website=vcfed.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-13}} 12. ^{{cite news|title=Silicon Valley microcomputer pioneer dies in Camp Fire|url=https://abc7news.com/silicon-valley-microcomputer-pioneer-dies-in-camp-fire/4698268/|accessdate=|publisher=ABC 7 News|date=}} External links
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