Léo Gordon Laporte (born November 29, 1956 in Manhattan, New York City) is an American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Henry and Abby.
Laporte studied Chinese History under Jonathan Spence at Yale University before dropping out in his junior year to pursue his career in radio broadcasting, where his early radio nam...
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Léo Gordon Laporte (born November 29, 1956 in Manhattan, New York City) is an American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Henry and Abby.
Laporte studied Chinese History under Jonathan Spence at Yale University before dropping out in his junior year to pursue his career in radio broadcasting, where his early radio names were Dave Allen and Dan Hayes. He began his association with computers with his first home PC, an Atari 400. He operated one of the first Macintosh-only bulletin board systems, MacQueue, from 1985 to 1988.
Laporte has created, hosted, and contributed to a number of technology-related broadcasting projects. He created and co-hosted Dvorak On Computers in January 1991 (co-hosted with computer pundit John Dvorak), and hosted Laporte On Computers on KGO Radio and KSFO in San Francisco. In addition, Laporte also hosted Internet! on PBS, and The...
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