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John Markoff: What the dormouse said (2006, Penguin Books) 4 stars

Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff's landmark …

Review of 'What the dormouse said' on Goodreads

2 stars

I enjoy stories of Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, and Stewart Brand as much as the next guy, but this does not deliver on connecting its interwoven LSD, Communes, and Antiwar aspects of some overlapping engineers to these stories. A decent history of People's Computer Company activist Fred Moore is in here.