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Fire in the Valley: The Untold Saga Behind the Personal Computer Revolution

Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer is a captivating chronicle of how a ragtag group of visionaries, dropouts, and tech obsessives turned a fringe hobby into a global revolution. Written by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger—two tech journalists who lived through the revolution—this book is widely considered the definitive history of the personal computer. Through extensive interviews and firsthand accounts, it traces the rise and fall of the PC era, from garage-based tinkering to Silicon Valley empires, and from technological empowerment to the dawn of the post-PC world.