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Computer manufacturing is-- after cars, energy production and illegal drugs-- the largest industry in the world, and it's one of the last great success stories in American business. "Accidental Empires" is the trenchant, vastly readable history of that industry, focusing as much on the astoundingly odd personalities at its core-- Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor, etc. and the hacker culture they spawned as it does on the remarkable technology they created. Cringely reveals the manias and foibles of these men (they are always men) with deadpan hilarity and cogently demonstrates how their neuroses have shaped the computer business. But Cringely gives us much more than high-tech voyeurism and insider gossip. From the birth of the transistor to the mid-life crisis of the computer industry, he spins a sweeping, uniquely American saga of creativity and ego that is at once uproarious, shocking and inspiring.
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- Title Accidental Empires
- Author Robert X. Cringely
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Business, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-09-13
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780887308550 / 0887308554
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.32 x 0.93 in (20.57 x 13.51 x 2.36 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Computer industry - California - Santa Clara
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96034100
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.47
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- New York Times, 10/20/1996, Page 36
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