Dealers of lightning
Subtitle: Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age
By: Michael Hiltzik.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperBusiness
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Xerox Corporation. Palo Alto Research Center -- History; Computer science -- Research -- California -- Palo Alto -- History
Description: Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC - a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time Michael Hiltzik, a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, reveals in detail the true story of the extraordinary group that aimed to bring about a technological dawn that would change the world - and succeeded.

Dealers of Lightning is an unprecedented look at the ideas, the inventions, and the individuals that propelled Xerox PARC to the frontier of technohistory - and the corporate machinations that almost prevented it from achieving greatness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-422) and index.