Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made (Paperback)

Andy Hertzfeld

  • 出版商: O'Reilly
  • 出版日期: 2011-11-08
  • 定價: $825
  • 售價: 8.0$660
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 328
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1449316247
  • ISBN-13: 9781449316242
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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, 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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不久前的某個時期,打字機和筆記本統治著,而電腦作為日常工具只是一個遠見。《革命在山谷》追溯了這個遠見的最早根源:蘋果公司的走廊和後房,那裡孕育了開創性的麥金塔電腦。這本書追溯了麥金塔的發展,從1979年作為地下研究項目的起源,到1984年的成功推出,以及之後的發展。

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當《革命在山谷》開始時,赫茨菲爾德正在為蘋果公司的首次低成本消費者導向計算機——蘋果II進行工作。他看到史蒂夫·喬布斯正在吸引公司最優秀的創新者參與一個小型研究項目——麥金塔。赫茨菲爾德成功加入了麥金塔研究團隊,其餘的就是歷史。

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