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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, (Paperback)
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, (Paperback)
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from scottcholstad
This book was a fascinating history of personal computing in America, most specifically in Northern California, most especially in the Stanford region. I swear, I had no idea that Stanford played such a strategic role in the development of the personal computer. The book attempts to tie together...
from DoesNotCompute
This book starts slow before you figure out that the entire book is about drug experimentation by the people who conceived every facet of the modern computer - the mouse, the GUI, and the Internet - at least on the left coast.
from csixty4
I've been wanting to read What the Dormouse Said since it came out, and finally got the chance to read it this week. I was disappointed, although now I have a lot of other books & videos to dig into as a result of reading this book. Markoff's thesis, that the 1960s psychadelic subculture shaped t...
from Brian.Gunderson
This is a very interesting book which addresses the social and technological ideas behind the movement from large computers set up in companies, universities or government facilities to personal computers meant for individuals and their communication needs and workloads. And of course, there are ...
from librorumamans
Disappointing. Prolix, and too much given to trivialities, thus obscuring the through-line of what would make a really good extended magazine article. The soul of a new machine this ain't.
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