Book description
There was a time, not too long ago, when the typewriter and notebook ruled, and the computer as an everyday tool was simply a vision. Revolution in the Valley traces this vision back to its earliest roots: the hallways and backrooms of Apple, where the groundbreaking Macintosh computer was born. The book traces the development of the Macintosh, from its inception as an underground skunkworks project in 1979 to its triumphant introduction in 1984 and beyond. The stories in Revolution in the Valley come on extremely good authority. That's because author Andy Hertzfeld was a core member of the team that built the Macintosh system software, and a key creator of the Mac's radically new user interface software. One of the chosen few who worked with the mercurial Steve Jobs, you might call him the ultimate insider. When Revolution in the Valley begins, Hertzfeld is working on Apple's first attempt at a low-cost, consumer-oriented computer: the Apple II. He sees that Steve Jobs is luring some of the company's most brilliant innovators to work on a tiny research effort the Macintosh. Hertzfeld manages to make his way onto the Macintosh research team, and the rest is history. Through lavish illustrations, period photos (many never before published), and Hertzfeld's vivid first-hand accounts, Revolution in the Valley reveals what it was like to be there at the birth of the personal computer revolution. The story comes to life through the book's portrait of the talented and often eccentric characters who made up the Macintosh team. Now, over 20 years later, millions of people are benefiting from the technical achievements of this determined and brilliant group of people.
Table of contents
- cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Cast of Characters
- part one
-
part two
- Reality Distortion Field
- Texaco Towers
- More Like A Porsche
- SQUARE DOTS
- Early Demos
- Bicycle
- A Message for Adam
- PC Board Esthetics
- Pineapple Pizza
- Round Rects Are Everywhere!
- Apple II Mouse Card
- Diagnostic Port
- Shut Up!
- Donkey
- Desk Ornaments
- I Don’t Have a Computer!
- Hungarian
- Calculator Construction Set
- –2000 Lines of Code
- Mister Macintosh
- Signing Party
- And Another Thing...
- Rosing’s Rascals
- Gobble, Gobble, Gobble
- Software Wizard
- US Festival
-
part three
- And Then He Discovered Loops!
- busy being born
- I Still Remember Regions
- You Can’t Fire Bruce!
- Alice
- Do It
- Inside Macintosh
- Creative Think
- Resource Manager Countdown
- You Guys Are in Big Trouble
- Five Different Macintoshes
- Boot Beep
- Sound by Monday
- The Little Kingdom
- What’s a Megaflop?
- Credit Where Due
- Too Big for My Britches
- Steve Icon
- Bouncing Pepsis
- Swedish Campground
- busy being born, part 2
- Quick, Hide in This Closet!
- Saving Lives
- Stolen from Apple
- World Class Cities
- Pirate Flag
- Make a Mess, Clean It Up!
- MacPaint Evolution
-
part four
- Steve Wozniak University
- The Mythical Man-Year
- 1984
- Monkey Lives
- Puzzle
- We’re Not Hackers!
- A Rich Neighbor Named Xerox
- Price Fight
- 90 Hours a Week and loving it
- MacPaint Gallery
- Steve Capps Day
- A Mac for Mick
- Real Artists Ship
- Disk Swapper’s Elbow
- It Sure Is Great to Get Out of That Bag!
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- part five
- How the Book Came to Be
- Afterword for the New Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Photo Credits
- Index
Product information
- Title: Revolution in The Valley [Paperback]
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2004
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596007195
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