From the Book - Third edition.
Tinder for the Fire. Steam ; The breakthrough ; Critical mass ; Breakout ; Hackers.
The Voyage to Altair. Uncle Sol's boys ; Going for broke ; All hell breaks loose ; Putting it together ; The competition ; The fall.
The Miracle Makers. After Altair ; Amateurs and professionals ; Building one and building two ; Miracles and mistakes ; est and entrepreneur's disease ; Death and rebirth.
Homebrew. Power to the people ; The Homebrew Computer Club ; Wildfire in Silicon Valley ; Nostalgia for the future ; Sixers and seventy-sixers ; Home rule ; Homebrew legacy.
The Genie in the Box. The Altair's first recital ; Pleasure before business ; The first operating system ; Getting down to BASIC ; The other BASIC ; Electric pencil ; The rise of general software companies ; The bottom line ; Software empires.
Retailing the Revolution. Spreading the word : the magazines ; Word of mouth : the clubs and shows ; Hand-holding : the first retailers ; The big players.
Apple. Jobs and Woz ; Starting Apple ; Magic times ; Trouble in paradise ; Shooting for the moon.
The Gate Comes Down. The luggable computer ; The HP way and the Xerox worm ; IBM.
The PC Industry. Losing their religion ; Clones ; Consolidation ; Commoditization ; Cyberspace ; Apple without Jobs.
The Post-PC era. The big turnaround ; Getting really personal ; Into the cloud ; Leaving the stage ; Looking back.
