ABSTRACT
Iowa is also the land of the swine. Factory farms dot the rural landscape, rolling out pork bellies and hams bound for grocery stores and supermarkets across the country.
is picturesque, agrarian state of Iowa was a world away from the technological mecca of Silicon Valley in California, but that did not keep the Hawkeye State from having its own hi-tech darling, tucked away in Clive, a suburb of the state’s capital, Des Moines. All one had to do was to drive north on 114th Street, past the headquarters of the National Pork Board, to nd a nondescript, one-story complex of buildings. is was the home of Microware Systems Corporation, a company whose product would come to play a prominent role in Tandy’s Color Computer (Figure 6.1).
