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Revolution in The Valley View Larger Image | Andy Hertzfeld
O'Reilly Media, Hardcover, Published December 2004, 291 pages, ISBN 0596007191 | List Price: $24.95
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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 (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
About the Authors
Andy Hertzfeld was a graduate student in computer science at
UC Berkeley in January 1978 when he purchased one of the first Apple IIs. He
quickly lost interest in grad school as he began writing programs for his Apple
II, eventually leading him to join Apple Computer as a systems programmer in
August 1979. He joined the Macintosh team in February 1981, and became one of
the main authors of the Macintosh system software, including the User Interface
Toolbox and many of the original desk accessories. He left Apple in March 1984,
and went on to co-found three companies: Radius (1986), General Magic (1990)
and Eazel (1999). His latest project is web-based software for collective storytelling,
which was used to originally publish the stories in this book on his Mac Folklore
website (http://www.folklore.org)
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