by Michael A. Hiltzik · Xerox Corporation · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780887309892
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«Dealers of Lightning» is Michael A. Hiltzik's historical essay about Xerox PARC, published by HarperBusiness in paperback.
It covers the history of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, where engineers and computer scientists created technologies that are now fundamental, such as the first personal computer, the laser printer, Ethernet and the graphical interface, and analyzes why Xerox failed to capitalize on those inventions. Based on interviews with the protagonists.
Michael A. Hiltzik, a journalist for the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize winner, is the author. The work's subtitle is «Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age».
Recommended for readers interested in the history of computing, technological innovation and the inner workings of large corporations.
