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Fire in the valley:

the making of the personal computer
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Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1984 - Business & Economics - 288 pages
Chronicles History of Computer Pioneers & the Industry They Founded

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User Review  - Eddy Allen - Goodreads

"A book not to be missed, just plain good reading about the drama of the Kids next door turning their dreams into millions."--The New York Times"Swaine and Freiberger capture the communal spirit of ... Read full review

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fire in the valley by freiberger and swaine
Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine's account of the beginning of Silicon Valley and the personal computer
www.fireinthevalley.com/

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Fire in the Valley — Summary | getabstract
Download the five-page summary of Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine (mcgraw-Hill, 2000). The Making of the Personal Computer
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Apple Computer History - books published in the 1980s. Page 1 of 2
Mixed in with the story are 'real-time' summaries of meetings leading up to the Macintosh release. Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer ...
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IMSAI History
The first, Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine's 1984 "Fire in the Valley: the making of the personal computer" (ISBN: 0-88134-121-5) provides a generalized, ...
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DEPARTMENT. microreview. Editor: David L. Hannum/AT&T Information. Systems. Some. water. for the. Fire. in the. Valley! Fire in. the Valley, Paul Freiberger ...
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Homebrew Computer Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1999 made-for-television movie Pirates of Silicon Valley (and the book on which it is based, Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer) ...
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ERCB: DDJ Programmer's Bookshelf April 1997
Review by Eugene Eric Kim Copyright (C) Dr. Dobb's Journal, April, 1997. Eugene, ddj's associate technical editor, can be contacted at eekim@ddj.com. ...
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The Static Page
Fire In The Valley. Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger have recently updated their classic, Fire In The Valley, a history of how the computer revolution ...
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PERSONAL COMPUTERS; THE ROMANTIC HISTORY OF COMPUTERS - New York Times
PERSONAL COMPUTERS; THE ROMANTIC HISTORY OF COMPUTERS. By ERIK SANDBERG-DIMENT. AS recently as a decade ago the thought of computer books occupying a major ...
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About the author (1984)

Freiberger is a member of the research staff at Interval Research Corp.

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