Triumph of the Nerds

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Across
  1. 5. Microsoft founder and former wealthiest man in the world
  2. 10. early English-language input programming language (Grace Hopper)
  3. 11. integrated circuit with transistors, core component of computers
  4. 14. ___ _____ Computer Fair, formerly the world's largest computer conference
  5. 15. _____ 8800, first personal computer
  6. 17. VISICALC coder
Down
  1. 1. Microsoft founder and Trailblazers owner
  2. 2. term describing the west coast region where personal computing took off
  3. 3. Si 14, also _______ Valley
  4. 4. first majorly successful personal computer, notable for an integrated keyboard
  5. 6. Apple founder
  6. 7. Apple founder
  7. 8. VISICALC inventor (first spreadsheet)
  8. 9. US Navy Captain (later Admiral) who refined natural language programming
  9. 12. "Big Blue," major computer company that would compete with Silicon Valley firms
  10. 13. type of rock music the Microsoft team listened to while coding
  11. 16. company that introduced the first successful microprocessors