Template:Did you know nominations/Parasitic Engineering

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The result was: promoted by Aoidh (talk) 01:28, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Parasitic Engineering

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• ... that Parasitic Engineering was named as a reference to a MITS co-founder calling third-party hardware vendors "parasite companies"? Source: Freiberger, Paul; Michael Swaine (2000). Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer. McGraw-Hill. pp. 61–62. ISBN 0071358927 – via the Internet Archive.
  • ALT1: ... that after the co-founder of MITS derided third-party hardware vendors as "parasite companies", Howard Fullmer formed Parasitic Engineering to sell hardware for MITS' Altair 8800? Source: Same as ALT0
  • ALT2: ... that Parasitic Engineering, named after a MITS co-founder called third-party hardware vendors "parasite companies", sold upgrade kits for MITS' Altair 8800 and later sold a computer based on its bus? Source: Same as ALT0
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Axe and Grind

Created by DigitalIceAge (talk). Self-nominated at 07:18, 15 December 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: @DigitalIceAge: Good article. Just waiting on a QPQ. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:04, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

• @Onegreatjoke: Thanks for the review! QPQ now done. DigitalIceAge (talk) 05:15, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Alright, approving. Onegreatjoke (talk) 15:25, 17 December 2022 (UTC)