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I am a HUGE fan of the book "Fire In The Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer." I am an elder-millennial and it filled in a lot of gaps in the history o
by JoblessWonder 2y ago
I am a HUGE fan of the book "Fire In The Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer."
I am an elder-millennial and it filled in a lot of gaps in the history of personal computing that I was too young to learn.
Link: https://amzn.to/40vlUkN https://amzn.to/40vlUkN
- ManuelKiessling 2y agoYou might like The Dream Machine then, too!
- themadturk 2y agoAlso Hackers by Stephen Levy.
- OldSchool 2y agoIt's old but along the same lines; more stories of industry pioneers: Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (1992, 1996).
- tdeck 2y agoI also recommend Stan Veit's book; it's full of anecdotes from the early years of computer hardware and there's a podcast that reads some of the chapters aloud: https://www.classiccomputing.com/CCPodcasts/Stan_Veit/Stan_Veit.html https://www.classiccomputing.com/CCPodcasts/Stan_Veit/Stan_V...