A b o u t C a r l H e l m e r s
Carl Helmers had a long entrepreneurial career founding and publishing advertising-supported print technical magazines 1975 to 2006. He was a founder, editor and minority co-owner of the world’s first successful personal computer print magazine publication, BYTE, from 1975 until 1980. This was a period when early microcomputer hackers of the world in their pursuit of knowledge about a coming technology created the roots of today’s (post 2015) ubiquitous personal computing and mobile technology. It all came down to “I want my own personal computer – even if I have to figure out how to make one, then build and program it myself…”
Link to a longer 2015 PDF essay used to back up a local Rochester area IEEE Computer Society “Engineering in Medicine & Biological Systems” chapter’s talk that I gave February 17, 2015:
About Carl Helmers