Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer A rich s.Fire in the Valley is the definitive history of the personal computer, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, written by two veteran computer writers who were there
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| Title | : | Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (103 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1937785769 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-30 |
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Editorial : About the AuthorBest known as the editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal, Michael Swaine created or helped launch a dozen magazines, from InfoWorld to PragPub. He has written more than a thousand articles and columns for publications ranging from the Farmer's Almanac to MacUser. He currently edits books for the Pragmatic Bookshelf and is working on a mystery novel set in the mythical Northwest State of Jefferson.
In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution. What they did was invent the personal computer: not just a new device, but a watershed in the relationship between man and machine. This is their story.Fire in the Valley is the definitive history of the personal computer, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, written by two veteran computer writers who were there from the start. Working at InfoWorld in the early 1980s, Swaine and Freiberger daily rubbed elbows with people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they were creating the personal computer revolution.A rich s
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The book has a small chapter on finite element analysis which I really feel is out of place. Indeed the book seemed to me to be as much a vehicle for Breslin to get some of his personal predjudice's off his chest as much as it was a book about Runyon.. It made the story less choppy and ep
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