- Microcomputers, History, Computer software, Computers, history
"The year is 1962. More than a decade will pass before personal computers emerge from the garages of Silicon Valley, and a full thirty years before the Internet explosion of the 1990s.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and warm.
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About the book
- Author
- M. Mitchell Waldrop
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 528
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Stripe Press, Viking Adult
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781953953360
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