[net.books] "Silicon Valley Fever"

chip@dartvax.UUCP (Brig ) (05/14/84)

I just read a book called "Silicon Valley Fever" about Silicon Valley--
history, mores, companies, people etc.  Anyone interested in the
place, or software and hardware houses, etc, might want to browse it.

I'm sorry to say it's not very good.  It seems a random collection
of interviews, newspaper articles, etc--all filtered through a pair
of authoirs who don't write too well, and who have rather standard
Sociology Class biases.

However, you will see little bits on interviews with Bob Noyce
and other biggies; gossip about Steve Jobs & Wozniak, such as
their setting up company with Capn Crunch, the blue box manufacturer;
photos of Hewlett-Packard's garage, etc.

Plus more or less drivelous stuff about how hard SV'ers work, what
kind of cars they drive, the Japanese Threat, etc etc.

I wouldn't buy it, but I browsed it.  Authors names are forgotten
(mercifully).  But it was Basic Books.

murray@sbcs.UUCP (Murray Gordon) (05/31/84)

       Yes, one fan here! Or, more precisely, ex-fan. I used to read
everything of his I could get my hands on. Which wasn't easy, as I was 
living in a country where all his books were banned. Have you seen the
movie/s he made? They showed some of them (free!) at the Tate National
Art Gallery in London.

  Murray the mensch.



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