That's the popular legend. But in reality one guy was a professor at UCLA and the other a well paid engineer at TRW. To get started with early development of mu

That's the popular legend. But in reality one guy was a professor at UCLA and the other a well paid engineer at TRW. To get started with early development of much of their IP they used considerable resources available to them at their employers, which included funding from government IR&D projects and chip design engineers who were on TRW's payroll. So hardly a garage startup.