Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

The Barnes & Noble Review
March 1999

While Gates, Jobs, and the other big boys of Silicon Valley are basking in the glory of the information age, renowned Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Hiltzik re…

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