Fire in the Valley
Subtitle: The Making of The Personal Computer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: November 29, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780071358927
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.