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I found Odyssey to be somewhat self-serving and a
definite spinned POV on Sculley's influence on Apple's golden days. I'd suggest
you bookmark it with a large grain of salt. Hackers, on the other hand, was
great fun, and written more objectively. That book covered a much greater period
in computing (1960-circa 1983) and included both the influence of the first
generation of computing from MIT as well as the heady startup atmosphere of west
coast commerical efforts.
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Subject: [SWCollect] Home Computer Wars
book
I'm currently reading _The Home Computer Wars_ by Michael S.
Tomczyk.
It's an inside account of Commodore computers (with emphasis on
Jack
Tramiel) from the planning for the VIC-20 until Tramiel's
departure
(post-C-64).
It's pretty good so far. One thing I've
noticed is that since it was
written in 1984, there are references that
today you'll only get if
you lived through and were somewhat involved with
the personal
computer revolution. For example, referring to the Apple
II as simply
"the Apple."
I noticed the book doesn't have an index,
so I'm trying to compile a
basic one as I go for later reference.
I'll publish it on the web
when I'm finished. Does this seem like a
useful project? I
understand it's a fairly hard book to find, so it
may not be overly
useful. Are there any sites on the web that provide
indices for books
without them?
BTW, I just finished _Hard Drive_,
about Microsoft and Bill Gates up
through c. 1993. Next will probably
either be _Hackers_, which I
started once but didn't finish, or John
Sculley's _Odyssey_.
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Lee K. Seitz
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