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by Paul Freiberger, Michael Swaine
Fire in the Valley, 3rd Edition
Fire in the Valley, Third Edition
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Praise for All Editions of Fire in the Valley
Foreword to the Third Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
Your Own Computer
Chapter 1: Tinder for the Fire
Steam
The Breakthrough
Critical Mass
Breakout
Hackers
Chapter 2: The Voyage to Altair
Uncle Sol’s Boys
Going for Broke
All Hell Breaks Loose
Putting It Together
The Competition
The Fall
Chapter 3: The Miracle Makers
After Altair
Amateurs and Professionals
Building One and Building Two
Miracles and Mistakes
est and Entrepreneur’s Disease
Death and Rebirth
Chapter 4: Homebrew
Power to the People
The Homebrew Computer Club
Wildfire in Silicon Valley
Nostalgia for the Future
Sixers and Seventy-Sixers
Home Rule
Homebrew Legacy
Chapter 5: The Genie in the Box
The Altair’s First Recital
Pleasure Before Business
The First Operating System
Getting Down to BASIC
The Other BASIC
Electric Pencil
The Rise of General Software Companies
The Bottom Line
Software Empires
Chapter 6: Retailing the Revolution
Spreading the Word: The Magazines
Word of Mouth: The Clubs and Shows
Hand-Holding: The First Retailers
The Big Players
Chapter 7: Apple
Jobs and Woz
Starting Apple
Magic Times
Trouble in Paradise
Shooting for the Moon
Chapter 8: The Gate Comes Down
The Luggable Computer
The HP Way and the Xerox Worm
IBM
Chapter 9: The PC Industry
Losing Their Religion
Clones
Consolidation
Commoditization
Cyberspace
Apple Without Jobs
Chapter 10: The Post-PC Era
The Big Turnaround
Getting Really Personal
Into the Cloud
Leaving the Stage
Looking Back
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