Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer

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In the early 1970s the personal computer was just a wild dream shared by a small group of computer enthusiasts in an area south of San Francisco now called Silicon Valley.

Working after-hours in basements and warehouses, computer pioneers Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Gary Kildall of Digital Research, and many others ignited a technological revolution of…

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