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Fire in the Valley, 3rd Edition: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

By Michael Swaine , Paul Freiberger

Book information

Publisher
The Pragmatic Programmers
Year
2014
ISBN
978-1-93778-576-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16708893 bytes)
Pages
424\414
Topic
Computers
Time added
2016-06-29 18:00:00
Библиотека;Компьютерная литература

Description

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.

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