Mr. Rogers would not disclose revenue or profitability for the company, which is privately held, but he said computers made up 60percentt of its sales.
They used a computer image, made up of patches, that resembled a chaotic marching band whose members move about the field in a random way.
Based on the sub-atomic physics he learnt about there, Ikeda has created a stunning show of light, made up of 40 computers synchronised with projectors and loudspeakers.
Wozniak's childhood in Sunnyvale, Calif., and his work designing computers make up the bulk of the book, but he also recounts his adventures as a concert promoter, the creator of the Bay Area's first Dial-a-Joke hotline, a San Jose philanthropist, the inventor of the first universal remote control and a fifth-grade teacher.
For all the talk, the so-called handheld computers and palm computers make up only a small fraction of the annual sales of notebooks.
In addition, the company is trying to insulate itself against a slowing market for personal computer chips, which made up 76percentt of Intel's sales last year.
He was publishing a magazine called Computer Shopper, which was made up entirely of ads and was thick enough to kill a household pet.
Instead it is underpinned by a peer-to-peer computer network made up of its users' machines, akin to the networks that underpin BitTorrent, a file-sharing system, and Skype, an audio, video and chat service.
For most big retail banks, renting, equipping and staffing branches can easily account for 40-60% of their total operating costs, with computer systems making up most of the rest.Despite the predictions of the death of branch banking, in most countries the number of branches has increased over the past decade.
