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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal ...

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal ...

John Markoff - Computers - 2005 - 336 pages
Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the ...
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Infinite loop: how the world's most insanely great computer company went insane

Infinite loop: how the world's most insanely great computer company went insane

Michael Shawn Malone - Business & Economics - 1999 - 597 pages
Reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the downfall of Apple Computer, a tale of incredible technological inventiveness undercut by corporate ineptitude and internal ...
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Gates: how Microsoft's mogul reinvented an industry--and made himself the ...

Gates: how Microsoft's mogul reinvented an industry--and made himself the ...

Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 534 pages
The inside story of Microsoft's founder describes how a computer nerd and Harvard dropout built his fledgling software company into a worldwide leader and became the most ...
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The dream machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the revolution that made computing ...

The dream machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the revolution that made computing ...

M. Mitchell Waldrop - Computers - 2002 - 502 pages
A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream of a "human-computer symbiosis" transformed the ...
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Steve Jobs: the journey is the reward

Steve Jobs: the journey is the reward

Jeffrey S. Young - Business & Economics - 1988 - 440 pages
This biography of the life and career of the man who started the computer revolution provides insights into his early life and formative influences, his personality, his ...
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Digital future: the personal computer explosion--why it's happening and what ...

Digital future: the personal computer explosion--why it's happening and what ...

John Case - Computers - 1985 - 192 pages
A Discussion of the History, Technology & Possible Future of Computers
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Insanely great: the life and time of Macintosh, the computer that changed ...

Insanely great: the life and time of Macintosh, the computer that changed ...

Steven Levy - Computers - 1995 - 312 pages
In this "holy scripture for loyal clickers of the mouse" (San Francisco Examiner), veteran technology writer Steven Levy zooms in on the Mac and the fortunes of the unique ...
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Once upon a time in ComputerLand: the amazing, billion-dollar tale of Bill ...
Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal ...
Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple

Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple

Michael Moritz - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 352 pages
In 1984, The Little Kingdom told the story of Apple's first decade alongside the histories of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Now Moritz revisits his classic biography in light ...
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