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Accidental Empires:

How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, Ans Still Can't Get a Date
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Basic Books, 1992 - Business & Economics - 324 pages
Computer manufacturing is--after cars, energy production and illegal drugs--the largest industry in the world, and it's one of the last great success stories in American business. Accidental Empires is the trenchant, vastly readable history of that industry, focusing as much on the astoundingly odd personalities at its core--Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor, etc. and the hacker culture they spawned as it does on the remarkable technology they created. Cringely reveals the manias and foibles of these men (they are always men) with deadpan hilarity and cogently demonstrates how their neuroses have shaped the computer business. But Cringely gives us much more than high-tech voyeurism and insider gossip. From the birth of the transistor to the mid-life crisis of the computer industry, he spins a sweeping, uniquely American saga of creativity and ego that is at once uproarious, shocking and inspiring.
  

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This is a great history of the personal computer industry. I enjoyed the insider knowledge and anecdotes about the personalities involved in bringing these technologies out. Reading this today (on my ... Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

CHAPTER
18
CHAPTER THREE
33
CHAPTER FOUR
48
CHAPTER FIVE
73
CHAPTER
93
CHAPTER SEVEN
119
CHAPTER EIGHT
139
CHAPTER NINE
159
CHAPTER
182
CHAPTER ELEVEN
209
CHAPTER TWELVE
230
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
247
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
269
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
297
INDEX
317
Copyright

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About the author (1992)

For eight years, Robert X. Cringely's "Notes from the Field" column appeared weekly in "Info World." Currently he can be seen in the public television series "Triumph of the Nerds, " based on this book. A former Stanford professor and foreign correspondent, he lives in Palo Alto, California.

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TitleAccidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, Ans Still Can't Get a Date
William Patrick book
AuthorRobert X Cringely
Edition2
PublisherBasic Books, 1992
ISBN0201570327, 9780201570328
Length324 pages
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