Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

tags: history, tech •

Book Info

Author: Michael A. Hiltzik
Year: 2000
Pages: 480
Acquired: June 18, 2022

I have read this book, however there is no date recorded. This usually means I read it before I started tracking my reading in 2014.
A softcover copy of this book is currently in my home library.

Inbound link from this – What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry July 6, 2015

The title promised a discussion about how the 60s “shaped” the personal computer industry, but I just didn’t see it. The book is a history of technology and how the seminal figures of that period interacted with culture, but it didn’t show me how society “shaped” the industry, as much as the…