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If you want to read a really good, really amusing book, check out "Accidental Empires" by Robert X Cringly, subtitled "How the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date".
Informative, entertaining, fucking hilarious at times. A bit dated but an excellent take on the PC business from 1975 or up to the mid 90's.
I love his take on how the business came about.
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1. It all happened by more or less by accident.
2. The people who made it happen were amateurs.
3. And for the most part they still are.
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