What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computerindustry Hardcover - 2005
by John Markoff
While there have been several histories of the personal computer, well-known technology writer John Markoff has created the first ever to spotlight the unique political and cultural forces that gave rise to this revolutionary technology. Focusing on the period of 1962 through 1975 in the San Francisco Bay Area, where a heady mix of tech industries, radicalism, and readily available drugs flourished, What the Dormouse Said tells the story of the birth of the personal computer through the people, politics, and protest that defined its unique era.
Based on interviews with all the major surviving players, Markoff vividly captures the lives and times of those who laid the groundwork for the PC revolution, introducing the reader to such colorful characters as Fred Moore, a teenage antiwar protester who went on to ignite the computer industry, and Cap'n Crunch, who wrote the first word processing software for the IBM PC (EZ Writer) in prison, became a millionaire, and ended up homeless. Both immensely informative and entertaining, What the Dormouse Said promises to appeal to all readers of technology, especially the bestselling The Soul of a New Machine.
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In February of 1960, two young California engineers boarded a plane on their way to an annual electronics technical meeting in Philadelphia.
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- Title What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computerindustry
- Author John Markoff
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 310
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Books, New York, NY
- Date April 25, 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780670033829 / 0670033820
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.42 x 1.18 in (23.52 x 16.31 x 3.00 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004061181
- Dewey Decimal Code 004.16
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