TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swaine, Michael,
AU  - Freiberger, Paul,
AU  - Hogan, Brian P.
TI  - Fire in the valley : the birth and death of the personal computer
T2  - Pragmatic programmers
SN  - 9781937785765
AV  - QA 76.5 S92F 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Dallas, Texas
PB  - The Pragmatic Bookshelf
KW  - MICROCOMPUTERS
KW  - UNITED STATES
KW  - HISTORY
N1  - 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
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