What the dormouse said--
Subtitle: how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry
By: John Markoff.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Microcomputers -- History; Computers and civilization; Nineteen sixties
Description: An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the people, politics, and social upheavals that defined its time, from a teenage anti-war protester who laid the groundwork for the PC revolution to the imprisoned creator of the first word processing software for the IBM PC.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: The prophet and the true believers; title: Augmentation; title: Red-diaper baby; title: Free U; title: Dealing lightning; title: Scholars and barbarians; title: Momentum; title: Borrowing fire from the Gods.