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Chargement... Silicon Valley : la passionnante aventure de l'ordinateur personnel (1984)par Paul Freiberger, Michael Swaine
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The book significantly underestimates gaming's role in promoting the adoption of computing technologies. I'm to get more into this in depth with my video review. ( ) Another pleasant reread of a personal computing history book I originally read in the 1980s. The authors--both of whom edited computer publications as the stories developed--tell the story of the beginnings of the PC revolution from the perspective of Silicon Valley. Their version heavily overlaps Stephen Levy's Hackers, which was published a few months later, but it's a very different tale in style and substance. For one thing, this is a less literary effort. It's also differently focused, as these guys care more about technical details than Levy does. And the largely west-coast perspective lets this book examine relationships in ways Hackers' structure didn't permit. The book consists of many short sections, organized into eight thematic (and roughly chronological) chapters. While the sections are related, they're essentially independent. It's pretty common to find more than one version of a story/encounter within the book, often in widely separated places. This in no way harms the narrative; it's just a quirk of the book's organization. Because the book's nearly three decades old, some of the context seems a little odd. In particular, a pervasive fear of IBM dates the book--not to say the fears weren't real, but we now know IBM had a significantly different impact than the PC industry expected. Similarly, there's essentially no recognition of the immense power Microsoft would come to yield in the industry, and (of course) no clue about Apple's long stagnation, and resurrection. And the Internet has no presence in this book whatever. A very worthwhile effort. If you're interested in this era's history, you should read both this book and Levy's; their differences and their similarities are both instructive. This review has also been published on a dabbler's journal. A fun book that covers the personal computer revolution from the mid 70's to the late 90's. Lots of great quotes and snippets from interviews plus several picture sections. The only weak part of the book is the very end where they attempt to draw conclusions about Internet issues and other things that are long since past history for us now. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes. Wikipédia en anglais (15)In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution. What they did was invent the personal computer: not just a new device, but a watershed in the relationship between man and machine. This is their story. Fire in the Valley is the definitive history of the personal computer, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, written by two veteran computer writers who were there from the start. Working at InfoWorld in the early 1980s, Swaine and Freiberger daily rubbed elbows with people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they were creating the personal computer revolution. A rich story of colorful individuals, Fire in the Valley profiles these unlikely revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, such as Ed Roberts of MITS, Lee Felsenstein at Processor Technology, and Jack Tramiel of Commodore, as well as Jobs and Gates in all the innocence of their formative years. This completely revised and expanded third edition brings the story to its completion, chronicling the end of the personal computer revolution and the beginning of the post-PC era. It covers the departure from the stage of major players with the deaths of Steve Jobs and Douglas Engelbart and the retirements of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer; the shift away from the PC to the cloud and portable devices; and what the end of the PC era means for issues such as personal freedom and power, and open source vs. proprietary software. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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