That's cool. I used to have the office next to Gary Starkweather. I don't like to name-drop, but one day he invented the laser printer., But it never came up. One day at lunch, we were talking about HP printers, and someone was like, 'Oh yeah, Gary invented the laser

Robert Scoble

@scobleizer · Twitter · 2026-09-06 01:09 UTC

@hthieblot Apple II motherboards. 1978. My brothers and I loaded more than 1,000. My mom taught me to solder them which got me my first job at HP running a wave solder machine making the first laser printers.