What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer
John Markoff, "What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer"
ISBN: 0670033820, 0143036769 | 2006 | EPUB | 326 pages | 355 KB
An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the people, politics, and social upheavals that defined its time, from a teenage anti-war protester who laid the groundwork for the PC revolution to the imprisoned creator of the first word processing software for the IBM PC. 40,000 first printing.