Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, And Still Can't Get a Date (Penguin Business S.)

by RobertX.Cringely (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.23

  In the vein of Thomas Bass or Ed Regis, this book looks at the business of computing in the US, at computer science, as a business, and as a collection of extraordinary and eccentric characters. After automobiles, energy production, and illegal drugs, personal computers are the largest manufacturing industry in the world, and one of the great success stories for American business. This book looks at the development of this industry.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.23

  This work looks at the business of computing in the US, as computer science, as a business, and as a collection of extraordinary and eccentric characters. After automobiles, energy production, and illegal drugs, personal computers are one of the largest manufacturing industries in the world, and one of the great success stories for American business. This book is linked to a Channel 4 television series entitled The Triumph of the Nerds .

• New

  Paperback
  2019

  $14.82