Your call, still i would like to continued it, but would be happy regardless
Changing the Game
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I’m open, there’s a lot of fun tech people in the 1970s & early ‘80s before they were subsumed into big corporations.
Who would you like to see in the the new timeline?
I figured I'd ask as a means of making it more character-driven than the original version.
If you do reboot this it would be nice to see Nintendo releasing the ITTL version of the NES through Atari:
History of the Nintendo Entertainment System - Wikipedia
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Here’s the tech section of the bibliography for the timeline I’m working on. Mostly 1970s and 1980s stuff, with a moderate Apple focus—albeit one unavoidable in modern tech history given their prominence. I do need to add a few books including a Venture Capital history though. There are tons of great characters—don’t forget the British, ARM / Acorn (there’s an amazing Sophie Williams oral history PDF) and others are fascinating.
Edit: many of the following books are available to borrow on Internet Archive / OpenLibrary (same folk, weirdly sometimes different results) for one hour or two weeks.
*Leslie Berlin*
- Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age
*James Chposkey* & *Ted Leonsis*
- Blue Magic: The People, Power and Politics Behind the IBM Personal Computer
*Scott Cohen*
- Zap! The Rise and Fall of Atari
*Alan Deutschman*
- The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
*Claire L. Evans*
- Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
*Paul Freiberger* & *Michael Swaine*
- Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer
*Andy Hertzfeld*
- Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
*Barry M. Katz*
- Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design
*Tracy Kidder*
- The Soul of a New Machine
*Owen W. Linzmayer*
- Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful Company
*Michael S. Malone*
- Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company
- The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Company
*Michael Moritz*
- Return to the Little Kingdom: How Apple and Steve Jobs Changed the World
*Brent Schlender* & *Rick Tetzeli*
- Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
*Frank Rose*
- West of Eden: The End of Innocence at Apple Computer
*Tim Wu*
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
*G. Pascal Zachary*
- Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
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