TY - BOOK N2 - "At the dawn of the Information Age in 1963, a computer salesman in Texas saw an opportunity where IBM, his former employer, saw only dusty oil camps. This young entrepreneur, who had grown up dirt-poor in rural Louisiana during the Great Depression, staked his young family's livelihood on the notion that computers would help out local businesses - and quite possibly, revolutionize the way America did business."--Dust jacket. AB - "At the dawn of the Information Age in 1963, a computer salesman in Texas saw an opportunity where IBM, his former employer, saw only dusty oil camps. This young entrepreneur, who had grown up dirt-poor in rural Louisiana during the Great Depression, staked his young family's livelihood on the notion that computers would help out local businesses - and quite possibly, revolutionize the way America did business."--Dust jacket. T1 - Beyond Tallulah :how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur / DA - c2011. CY - New York : AU - Wyly, Sam. ET - 1st ed. CN - HC102.5.W95 CN - HC102.5.W95 PB - Melcher Media, PP - New York : PY - c2011. N1 - Includes index. ID - 435058 KW - Businessmen KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Billionaires SN - 9781595910691 SN - 1595910697 TI - Beyond Tallulah :how Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur / ER -