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A book not to be missed, just plain good reading about the drama of the Kids next door turning their dreams into millions. --The New York Times Swaine and Freiberger capture the communal spirit of the early computer clubs, the brilliance and blundering of some of the first start-up... read more
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THE PERSONAL COMPUTER SPRANG TO LIFE IN THE MID-1970s, BUT ITS historical roots reach back to the giant electronic "brains" of the 1950s and well before that to the "thinking" machines of nineteenth-century fiction.
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- Paul Freiberger (Author)
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