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Subject: "Silicon Valley Fever"
Message-ID: <1553@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-May-84 18:50:52 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 13 18:50:52 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 14-May-84 07:08:45 EDT
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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.