Revolution in The Valley

By Andy Hertzfeld, Steve Capps

Categories: Business & Money

Andy Hertzfeld, a member of the original Apple Macintosh team, tells the inside story of how the Mac was created in the early 1980s, leading up to its 1984 launch. Built from short anecdotes, photographs and sketches, the 2004 book shows the small team at work under Steve Jobs, with contributions from colleagues such as Steve Capps. Hertzfeld captures the engineering problems, design debates and personalities behind a computer that brought the graphical interface to a wide audience.

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• Keith Rabois
• Paul Graham: “In Andy Hertzfeld's book on the Macintosh, he describes how they'd come back into the office after dinner and work late into the night.”
• Patrick Collison: “Revolution in The Valley -- a hundred stories from the early days of the Mac, collected by one of its creators.”