About: Ray Borrill

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Boyd Raymond 'Ray' Borrill was founder of , a retail computer store in Bloomington, Indiana, and vice-president of itty bitty machine company retail computer store, December 1975 – 1980, located in Evanston, Illinois. These stores have their place in computer history as they are not only among the first several storefront computer retail shops, but also were two of the first computer stores to sell the Apple I computer, the MITS Altair 8800, as well as numerous other now highly collectible products from microcomputer history. The dealer arrangement was made by Steve Jobs. The Data Domain is also believed to be the first to ever use the phrase "Personal Computer" commercially. These stores are the first retail outlets for personal computers. Items could be purchased as either complete assem

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Boyd Raymond 'Ray' Borrill was founder of , a retail computer store in Bloomington, Indiana, and vice-president of itty bitty machine company retail computer store, December 1975 – 1980, located in Evanston, Illinois. These stores have their place in computer history as they are not only among the first several storefront computer retail shops, but also were two of the first computer stores to sell the Apple I computer, the MITS Altair 8800, as well as numerous other now highly collectible products from microcomputer history. The dealer arrangement was made by Steve Jobs. The Data Domain is also believed to be the first to ever use the phrase "Personal Computer" commercially. These stores are the first retail outlets for personal computers. Items could be purchased as either complete assembled and tested, or as kits. In 1975, Borrill was one of the participants of the Kansas City symposium, which established the Kansas City standard, a standard format for recording data on audio cassette tapes. The Kansas City standard format allowed for exchange of data between microcomputers. Many pioneers of the microcomputer industry, such as Bill Gates while working for MITS, were also in attendance. (en)
dbo:birthDate
  • 1931-06-10 (xsd:date)
dbo:birthYear
  • 1931-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:deathDate
  • 2006-09-19 (xsd:date)
dbo:deathPlace
dbo:deathYear
  • 2006-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 23719790 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 2773 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1111653457 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthDate
  • 1931-06-10 (xsd:date)
dbp:date
  • 2003-11-29 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathDate
  • 2006-09-19 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
  • Bloomington, Indiana, USA (en)
dbp:title
  • cache of thedatadomain.com from 2003 (en)
dbp:url
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Boyd Raymond 'Ray' Borrill was founder of , a retail computer store in Bloomington, Indiana, and vice-president of itty bitty machine company retail computer store, December 1975 – 1980, located in Evanston, Illinois. These stores have their place in computer history as they are not only among the first several storefront computer retail shops, but also were two of the first computer stores to sell the Apple I computer, the MITS Altair 8800, as well as numerous other now highly collectible products from microcomputer history. The dealer arrangement was made by Steve Jobs. The Data Domain is also believed to be the first to ever use the phrase "Personal Computer" commercially. These stores are the first retail outlets for personal computers. Items could be purchased as either complete assem (en)
rdfs:label
  • Ray Borrill (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License