Fire in the valley : the birth and death of the personal computer / Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger ; foreword by John Markoff, The New York Times ; edited by Brian P. Hogan.
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TextSeries: Pragmatic programmersPublication details: Dallas, Texas : The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2014Edition: Third editionDescription: xxvii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781937785765
- Birth and death of the personal computer
- Birth & death of the personal computer
- QA 76.5 S92F 2014
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SPU Library, Bangkok (Main Campus) | General Books (ENGLISH) | Floor 4: General Shelves (ENGLISH): N, Q-T | QA 76.5 S92F 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | F069129 |
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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