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Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer

Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer

by Michael Swaine (Author), Michael Swaine (Author), Paul Freiberger (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $20.06
Synopsis

This text covers the birth of the personal computer. It includes more photographs than the previous editions, and comments and quotes from some of the key players from that time looking back on their parts in hindsight.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 478
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 01 Dec 1999
ISBN 10: 0071358927
ISBN 13: 9780071358927

Media Reviews
The authors tell their tale with surprising human as well as technological insights.Freidberger and Swaine are blessed with a remarkable tale to tell.Fire in the Valley offers many nerd pleasures, not the least of which is a stroll down memory lane, back to a sunny time of youth and innocence and endlessly whirring floppy drives. All the highlights are covered.One of the strengths of this fine book is that it isn't tendentious about its subject matter. If Fire in the Valley has any thesis, it's that, like Englebart, the very earliest players weren't much motivated by money. Some were simply visionaries. Others just loved computers. Others still couldn't fit in anywhere else.