(Free download) Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
• Michael A. Hiltzik •
#242206 in eBooks 2009-05-13 2009-05-19File Name: B0029PBVCA
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Good story; badly told!By Gregory LovekampDue to his journalistic background, I suppose, each chapter weaves an interesting tale; however, the book doesn't gel as a complete story. The book jumps forward and backward in time so much, it is difficult to follow exactly what happened when. Even worse, we learn of the characters and some of their conflicts, but we never really learn much of their back stories. They never truly become people we ca.com Throughout the '70s and '80s, Xerox Corporation provided unlimited funding to a renegade think tank called the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Occupying a ramshackle building adjacent to Stanford University, PARC's occupants would prove to be the greatest gathering of computer talent ever aIn the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created several monumental innovations that triggered a technological revolution, including the first personal computer, the laser printer, and the graphical interface (one of the main precursors of the Int... [PDF.zw55] Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age Rating: 3.71 (582 Votes)
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