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Fire in the Valley The Making of the Personal Computer

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ISBN-10: 0071358927

ISBN-13: 9780071358927

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Paul Freiberger, Michael Swaine

List price: $16.95
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Fire In The Valley covers the birth of the personal computer. It includes more photographs than the previous editions, and comments and quotes from some of the key players from that time looking back on their parts in hindsight.
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade
Publication date: 11/29/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 463
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Paul Freiberger is an award-winning author, inventor, and former journalist. His books include Fuzzy Logic, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has written thousands of newspaper and magazine articles and columns, as well as speeches, white papers, and op-eds for top publications such as the Wall Street Journal.

Best known as the editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal, Michael Swaine created or helped launch a dozen magazines, from InfoWorld to PragPub. He has written more than a thousand articles and columns for publications ranging from the Farmer's Almanac to MacUser. He currently edits books for the Pragmatic Bookshelf and is working on a mystery novel set in the mythical Northwest State of Jefferson.