What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
John Markoff
336 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0670033820
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Language: English
Publish: 1114066800000
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An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the people, politics, and social upheavals that defined its time, from a teenage anti-war protester who laid the groundwork for the PC revolution to the imprisoned creator of the first word processing software for the IBM PC. 40,000 first printing.