In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution. What they did was invent the personal computer: not just a new device, but a watershed in the relationship between man and machine. This is their story.
https://pragprog.com/book/fsfire/fire-in-the-valley
I quite enjoy listening to the audio book (VLC on the MacBook, using the MP3 files corresponding to the chapters of the book – that’s the only viable approach for me indeed) and reading it on my iPad at the same time:
- https://pragprog.com/titles/fsfire/fire-in-the-valley/
- https://pragprog.com/titles/a-fsfire/fire-in-the-valley/ – the audio book