Fire in the Valley
Subtitle: The Making of The Personal Computer
Edition: Updated edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: November 29, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780071358927
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; Information technology industries; Personal computers; History; Computer Industry; Computers; Business / Economics / Finance; Computer Books: Internet General; United States; Internet - General; Corporate & Business History - General; Microcomputers
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.