Silicon Valley Historical Association

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More than a history of computing, this program shows how the mecca of computer technology caused a fundamental shift in American society. Walter Cronkite is the host for this fascinating film featuring the stories of Hewlett and Packard, Intel, Apple Computer and dozens of other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, inventors and visionaries.

Playing Time: 87 Minutes
Production Date: 1998

LIST OF FILM PARTICIPANTS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:

Walter Cronkite 
(Host of Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance) 

Nolan Bushnell 
(Founder, Atari & Father of Video Games) 

Jerry Garcia 
(Founder, Grateful Dead) 

William Perry 
(Founder, ESL and former Secretary of Defense) 

Scott Cook 
(Founder, Intuit) 

Jim Clark 
(Founder, Silicon Graphics & Netscape) 

Don Kennedy 
(Former President of Stanford University) 

Bill Hewlett 
(Founder, Hewlett-Packard Company) 

Fred Terman 
(Former Dean of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University) 

Dave Packard 
(Founder, Hewlett-Packard Company) 

Jim Gibbons 
(Former Dean of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University) 

Carl Djerassi 
(Father of the Birth Control Pill) 

Reynold Johnson 
(Inventor of the Disk Drive) 

Mike Malone 
(Author, The Big Score & The Microprocessor, a Biography) 

David Sarnoff 
(Radio and television pioneer) 

Gordon Moore 
(Founder, Intel) 

Arthur Rock 
(First “modern” venture capitalist) 

Annalee Saxenian 
(Author, Regional Advantage) 

Bill Graham 
(Early Intel employee, former Chairman of Novellus) 

Ted Hoff 
(Co-inventor of the microprocessor) 

Federico Faggin 
(Co-inventor of the microprocessor) 

Steve Jobs 
(Founder, Apple Computer) 

Steve Wozniak 
(Founder, Apple Computer) 

Mike Markkula 
(Founder, Apple Computer) 

Regis McKenna 
(Early Apple public relations/President, Regis McKenna Inc.) 

Fred Hoar 
(Early Apple marketing/President, Miller West) 

T.J. Rodgers 
(Founder, Cypress Semiconductor) 

Jim Morgan 
(CEO, Applied Materials) 

Bob Cohn 
(Founder, Octel) 

Robert A. Swanson 
(Founder, Genentech) 

Alejandro Zaffaroni 
(Founder, Alza) 

Jerry Sanders 
(Founder, AMD) 

Scott McNealy 
(Founder, Sun Microsystems) 

Robert H. Swanson 
(Founder, Linear Technology) 

Finis Conner 
(Founder, Seagate, Shugart Assoc., & Conner Peripherals) 

Larry Ellison 
(Founder, Oracle Corporation) 

Jim Hobart 
(Founder, Coherent) 

Charles Trimble 
(Founder, Trimble Navigation) 

Kurt Petersen 
(Father of Micromachining) 

Paul Berg 
(Nobel Laureate Medicine/DNA) 

John Freidenrich 
(Venture Capitalist) 

William Shockley 
(Nobel Laureate Physics/co-inventor of the transistor) 

Douglas Engelbart 
(Inventor of the computer mouse) 

John McLaughlin 
(Producer/Director of Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance) 

Linus Pauling 
(Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1954 & Peace 1962) 

John Warnock 
(Founder, Adobe Systems)