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Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made | 
| Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 16556
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 7.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0596007191
Dewey Decimal Number: 338
EAN: 9780596007195
ASIN: 0596007191
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Product 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
 Fantastic! April 18, 2008
Den Gee
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the best and the definitive book about the development of the Mac 128K (and Apple's early years) and the people behind it.
Andy writes it with great competence.
A text that is so delicious to read that when you finish the book you'll be sad that you read the last phrase.
A must buy.
 It's ok. August 23, 2007
Anonymous from NJ, USA (NJ, USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's a good book for collection, but I can't say it's a great book as other reviewers say. It's better to see the book before purchase it.
 Why not 5 stars? July 9, 2007
Blackarrow (Greece)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Surely, it is 5 star book as concerns the theme and the general story. It is very difficult to find a book in which the protagonists describe step by step the creation of the first macintosh. A must have book that every mac fan and generally computer lover must read. But, why not 5 stars? Beacause the story could be more narrative and more "magical"
A must read for any Mac enthusiast! March 9, 2007
Jay Boivin (California)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mac lovers find out how the Apple Macintosh was born. A beautiful book with great photos and graphics, filled with juicy snippets of how it all came to be. It's a love story of sorts of a team of passionate young programmers led by the one and only Steve Jobs. I love thi book!
An Entertaining and Engaging History December 7, 2006
Brian M. Oldham (Alameda, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Revolution in The Valley" is an entertaining history of the Macintosh. Andy Hertzfeld has collected stories from and about the original Macintosh team (which he was a member of). Most of the stories are brief, and told in a friendly and engaging manner.
I've read many biographies of Apple. Most are written by people that were not involved in the events, and most also ignore to a great extent the machines and the engineers that created them, instead focusing on Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. There is some of both Steves in "Revolution in The Valley," but the focus of the book is the Macintosh and the people that directly gave it life, as told by these everyday heroes, the Mac's collective parents.
I have rarely been so drawn into a book. The first time I read it, I went through it much faster than I normally read, and I continue to pull it down from the shelf, and revisit the stories.
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