Fire in the valley : the birth and death of the personal computer /
Swaine, Michael, 1945-
Fire in the valley : the birth and death of the personal computer / Birth and death of the personal computer Birth & death of the personal computer Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger ; foreword by John Markoff, The New York Times ; edited by Brian P. Hogan. - Third edition - Dallas, Texas : The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2014 - xxvii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Pragmatic programmers . - Pragmatic programmers .
Includes index
Your own computer -- Tinder for the fire. Steam ; The breakthrough ; Critical mass ; Breakout ; Hackers -- The voyage to Altair. Uncle Sol's boys ; Going for broke ; All hell breaks loose ; Putting it together ; The competition ; The fall -- The miracle makers. After Altair ; Amateurs and professionals ; Building one and building two ; Miracles and mistakes ; est and entrepreneur's disease ; Death and rebirth -- Homebrew. Power to the people ; The Homebrew Computer Club ; Wildfire in Silicon Valley ; Nostalgia for the future ; Sixers and seventy-sixers ; Home rule ; Homebrew legacy -- The genie in the box. The Altair's first recital ; Pleasure before business ; The first operating system ; Getting down to BASIC ; The other BASIC ; Electric pencil ; The rise of general software companies ; The bottom line ; Software empires -- Retailing the revolution. Spreading the word : the magazines ; Word of mouth : the clubs and shows ; Hand-holding : the first retailers ; The big players -- Apple. Jobs and Woz ; Starting Apple ; Magic times ; Trouble in paradise ; Shooting for the moon
9781937785765
MICROCOMPUTERS--HISTORY--UNITED STATES
QA 76.5 / S92F 2014
Fire in the valley : the birth and death of the personal computer / Birth and death of the personal computer Birth & death of the personal computer Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger ; foreword by John Markoff, The New York Times ; edited by Brian P. Hogan. - Third edition - Dallas, Texas : The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2014 - xxvii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Pragmatic programmers . - Pragmatic programmers .
Includes index
Your own computer -- Tinder for the fire. Steam ; The breakthrough ; Critical mass ; Breakout ; Hackers -- The voyage to Altair. Uncle Sol's boys ; Going for broke ; All hell breaks loose ; Putting it together ; The competition ; The fall -- The miracle makers. After Altair ; Amateurs and professionals ; Building one and building two ; Miracles and mistakes ; est and entrepreneur's disease ; Death and rebirth -- Homebrew. Power to the people ; The Homebrew Computer Club ; Wildfire in Silicon Valley ; Nostalgia for the future ; Sixers and seventy-sixers ; Home rule ; Homebrew legacy -- The genie in the box. The Altair's first recital ; Pleasure before business ; The first operating system ; Getting down to BASIC ; The other BASIC ; Electric pencil ; The rise of general software companies ; The bottom line ; Software empires -- Retailing the revolution. Spreading the word : the magazines ; Word of mouth : the clubs and shows ; Hand-holding : the first retailers ; The big players -- Apple. Jobs and Woz ; Starting Apple ; Magic times ; Trouble in paradise ; Shooting for the moon
9781937785765
MICROCOMPUTERS--HISTORY--UNITED STATES
QA 76.5 / S92F 2014