Talk:Parasitic Engineering
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A fact from Parasitic Engineering appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Aoidh (talk) 01:28, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
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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).
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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)
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