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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.072079473
EAN: 9780887309892
ISBN: 0887309895
Label: Collins Business
Manufacturer: Collins Business
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2000-04
Publisher: Collins Business
Release Date: April 04, 2000
Sales Rank: 235591
Studio: Collins Business
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Rating: - Early Computers history is very interesting
I loved to read this book. It's interesting. It shows you how the thing that we use today, like the GUIs, laser printers, ethernet, and more were developed in XEROX PARC. Who were the people that had the vision to make these things live. They changed everything and ironically were misunderstood in their time. I really enjoyed reading this book,
Rating:  - STRICTLY A CUT AND PASTE JOB
DEVOID OF INSIGHT OR ORIGINAL THOUGHT HILTZIG CONTINES TO TAKE CREDIT FOR OTHER PEOPLES RESEARCH AND THEN STATES IN A MOST BORING NANNER.
Rating:  - deep geek history that strains to be more mainstream than it can be
Perhaps because of Xerox' s phenomenal growth in the 1960s, a number of habits became entrenched in the company's culture. The Xerox management hierarchy became one of rigid top-down control, which paid less attention to the opinions of its customers than the cost-and-quantity inputs of its financial models. At the end of the decade, Xerox was a one-product company that had come to rely more on patents to maintain its monopoly than on copier reliability and customer service, in spite of the company's ... Read More
Rating:  - An Extremely Good Book About Computer R & D History
I do not know why this book was never more popular. It is a great read and has lots of detail on the evolution of computer R&D.
It is a very well written and detailed book about the computer R&D from Boston-Washington to Palo Alto at HP - written like a smooth flowing novel. It is mainly about Xerox and the research people and how they eventually decided to move the computer R&D to California. But it includes a lot more stuff. It Includes DARPA funding of the internet and work at ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent history of a major player in computing history
I found this an excellent, well-written overview of the history of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Not only are major players and products covered (the Alto, Smalltalk, Alan Kay), but the background and collateral history appears as well (DARPA, Vannevar Bush, J.C. Licklider, The Spacewar article in Rolling Stone). Much like Steven Levy's book Hackers, reading this book makes you feel like an expert, like you were there. Moreover, there is so much context and excitement, one feels compelled to ... Read More
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