Dealers of lightning : Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age / Michael Hiltzik.
Dealers of lightning : Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age / Michael Hiltzik.
Dealers of lightning : Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age / Michael Hiltzik.
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New York : HarperBusiness, c1999.
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T0370666
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English
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xxviii, 448 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The Time Machine -- Pt. I. Prodigies. Ch. 1. The Impresario. Ch. 2. McColough's Folly. Ch. 3. The House on Porter Drive. Ch. 4. Utopia. Ch. 5. Berkeley's Second System. Ch. 6. "Not Your Normal Person" Ch. 7. The Clone. Ch. 8. The Future Invented -- Pt. II. Inventors. Ch. 9. The Refugee...
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Publisher
New York : HarperBusiness, c1999.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1999.
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Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC - a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time Michael Hiltzik, a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, reveals in...
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Dealers of lightning : Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age / Michael Hiltzik.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-422) and index.
Transferred from N004.0720794/1.
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c1999.
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T0370666
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74VvM4rNkz83
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0887308910 (U.S.)
9780887308918
0887308910
9781842030004 :
1842030000 :
9780887309892
0887309895
9780887308918(U.S.)
0887308910(U.S.)
9781842030004
1842030000
9780887308918 (U.S.)
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004.072079473
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991007297099702626
