Fire in the Valley
Subtitle: The Making of the Personal Computer, Collector's Edition
Edition: Col Sub edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: December 9, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780071358958
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; Personal computers; Microcomputers; Computers; Computer Science (Specific Aspects); History Of Specific Companies; Business / Economics / Finance; Computer Books: Internet General; History; Corporate & Business History - General; California; United States; Hardware - Personal Computers - General; Computer Industry
First sentence: THE PERSONAL COMPUTER SPRANG TO LIFE IN THE MID-1970S, BUT ITS historical roots reach back to the giant electronic "brains" of the 1950s and well before that to the "thinking" machines of nineteenth-century fiction.