Hardcover, 310 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2005 by Viking.
What the dormouse said--
how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry
by John Markoff
What the dormouse said-- (2005, Viking)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-670-03382-9
- OCLC Number:
- 57068812
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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.
Subjects
- Microcomputers -- History
- Computers and civilization
- Nineteen sixties