"Fire In The Valley (The making of the personal computer)" by Freiberger & Swaine (McGraw-Hill) is an excellent book telling many stories about individual companies in the early days of Micro computers.<p>A television film "Pirates of Silicon Valley" was based on parts of the book.
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