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How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
Collins
October 1996
384 pages
ISBN: 0887308554
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Non-Fiction
Computer manufacturing is--after cars, energy production
and illegal drugs--the largest industry in the world, and
it's one of the last great success stories in American
business. Accidental Empires is the trenchant, vastly
readable history of that industry, focusing as much on the
astoundingly odd personalities at its core--Steve Jobs,
Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor, etc. and the hacker culture they
spawned as it does on the remarkable technology they
created. Cringely reveals the manias and foibles of these
men (they are always men) with deadpan hilarity and
cogently demonstrates how their neuroses have shaped the
computer business. But Cringely gives us much more than
high-tech voyeurism and insider gossip. From the birth of
the transistor to the mid-life crisis of the computer
industry, he spins a sweeping, uniquely American saga of
creativity and ego that is at once uproarious, shocking and
inspiring.
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