Dealers of Lightning

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• I'm currently in the process of reading "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age,"[0] and I highly recommend it.

  Hacker News · 2018 · in “Ask HN: Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companies/people?” · see comment ↗

• Dealers of Lightning; the best "tech sociology" book I've read, yet; was recommended here on HN as "must read" and it is absolutely a MUST READ.

  Hacker News · 2024 · see comment ↗

• If you like that sort of look back at tech history, and at things that came out from the PARC, I highly recommend "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael Hiltzik.

  Hacker News · 2022 · see comment ↗

• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, by Michael Hitzlik

  Stack Exchange · 2010 · in “What are some things you have read that inspired and guided you as a programmer?” · by haylem · CC BY-SA 2.5 · see comment ↗

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