What the dormouse said--
how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry
by John Markoff
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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.
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What the Dormouse Said
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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What the dormouse said: how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry
2006, Penguin Books
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What the dormouse said--: how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry
2005, Viking
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and index.
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Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff's landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It's a brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and '70s, where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a means for freeing minds and information. In these pages one encounters Ken Kesey and the phone hacker Cap'n Crunch, est and LSD, The Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Lab. What the Dormouse Said is a poignant, funny, and inspiring book by one of the smartest technology writers around.
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