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FIRE IN THE VALLEY
Heroes of the PC revolution (Japanese Version)

The development process from Altair 8800 to IBM PC is carefully summarized as a reading based on a rich interview of computer geeks called hackers around Silicon Valley. Apple Computer About Apple Computer, foundation, the stakeholders and their roles, and the inside of the company from Apple-1 to Macintosh development are also described with considerable pages. Although it is black and white, plentiful photos are valuable too, the state of the inside of early Apple Inc. provided by Margaret Wozniak, Woz crewing to answer the phone at Apple 's first office, tragic Apple III designer Wendell Thunder Dr., and early Macintosh prototype etc. are listed.

The photo on the left is the second edition in 2000. McGraw-Hill's book named the updated classic series. It is added Chapter 3 to the previous 8 chapters, and added about Apple and Microsoft later, CP / M creator Gray Kildall, Douglas Engelbart of Xerox Palo Alto laboratory, and it refers to the rise of Internet's World Wide Web in recent years including Sun Microsystems and Netscape. Pictures are also fun because the circuit diagram of Apple - 1 etc. has been added compared to Japanese first edition.
Author Paul Freiberger is also a journalist of Michael Swaine and still seems active.

Fire in The Valley: 1984, P. Freiberger, M. Swaine, McGraw-Hill, 288 pages, A4 variant version.
Heroes of the PC Revolution: 1985, P. Freiberger, M. Swaine, translated by Kazuo Ota, McGraw-Hill Book, 372 pages, A5 edition.
Fire in The Valley Second Edition 2000
Fire in The Valley Second Edition 2000 edition, P. Freiberger, M. Swaine, McGraw-Hill, 465 pages, A4 variant version.


JOHN SCULLEY ODYSSEY
Sculley; Economic philosophy to move the world

John Scully left Pepsi Cola USA, became president and CEO of Apple in 1983, and stayed Apple for ten years of the stormy life until he left Apple in October 1993. 1987 In the book issued in 1987, the era of "brilliant leap forward" in the first half is drawn.
The business lesson is described in each chapter mainly with the relation of Scully and Jobs, the human appearance in the company, and it is composed of the business guidance document of active managers. As a matter of course, quite a big page has been occupied on the background to the leave of Jobs in 1985 from the perspective of Scully.
Also from the early days, Pepsi and Apple have contained many photographs, especially it is a great reference for knowing the movement of the company and employees since its founding, the company's organization at that time such as the company's landscape and snap at the 10th anniversary party.
At the end of the book, there is a page called where they are now ..., which contains the movements of employees at the time of writing (1987). The picture on the left is the hard cover first edition. Above all, the sense of the cover which arranged Apple logo on Pepsi can is wonderful. At the end of the Japanese version of the lower left, there is a commentary with a very powerful commentary covering 30 pages of translator Izumi Aizu. This commentary contains episodes such as the encounter with Aizu and Apple, and it is also excellent as a single reading.

The English version is a paperback. It is a regrettable that abundant pictures are all deleted.

Odyssey, Pepsi to Apple: published in 1987. John Sculley with John A. Byrne, Harper & Row Publication, 450 pages, B 4 version.

Scully (Economic philosophy to move the world) the first/second volume; published in 1988. John Sculley with John A. Byrne, translated by Izumi Aizu, Hayakawa Shobo, about 700 pages, A5 version.  

Odyssey, Pepsi to Apple: published in 1988. John Sculley with John A.Byrne John Sculley with John A. Byrne, Fontana / Collins, 609 pages, Paperback. (UK Paperback version)

ACCIDENTAL MILLIONAIRE

Author Lee Butcher was a journalist who served as an editor of The San Jose Business Journal from 1985 to 1986.
The Rise and fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer
In this book subtitled “The rise and fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer”, it is described based on many testimonies that young man who had average engineering ability and nothing from personal computer creation, became millionaires in Silicon Valley, and he was broken by power struggle inside the Apple computer and leaved.
1988
At the time of publication of 1988, it seems that a little time had passed since the in-house trouble in 1985, the persons contributed and the stakeholders could calmly analyze the situation and talked about it. San Jose San Jose and Cupertino with Apple headquarters are neighborhood town, it was introduced a lot of episodes based on the rich testimonies that made use of the geological advantage, and it was introduced not only the unique character of Jobs but also a gentle personality episode that his devoted nursing at the time of Bruce Tognazzini (senior programmer of Apple) had being affected by cancer.

In epilogue, quoting the seniors of San Jose Business Journal, it was concluded that "Apple would have become one of the leading companies in Silicon Valley even without jobs, and Jobs would be a billionaire in Silicon Valley even without Apple”. It seems to me that it is somewhat different up to now. It is not that the story ended at this time, because the second act still continues.

The upper right is the first edition of paperback. The book review of the New York Times is printed on the upper left corner of the cover is almost the same as that of the original book (left). The lower left is the paperback published by Knightsbridge in 1990. The movement of Jobs at NeXT Inc. has been added by the author as Chapter 19. It is fun to see the cover is gorgeous compared to the original book of Paragon House (hardcover) which is elegant.

Accidental Millionaire, published in 1988. Lee Butcher Lee Butcher, Paragon House Publishers, 224 pages, B5 version.
Accidental Millonaire
Accidental Millionaire, published in 1989. Lee Butcher Lee Butcher, Paragon House Publishers, 226 pages, B5 version.
Accidental Millonaire
Accidental Millionaire, published in 1990. Lee Butcher Lee Butcher, Knightsbridge Publishing Company, 244 pages, Paperback.

 


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