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Fire in the Valley: The Making of The PC

Freiberger & Swaine

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jason Evanish liked it affiliate
History favors the winners. When you talk about the PC industry, many stories start and stop with Bill Gates and Microsoft or Steve Jobs and Apple. Fire in the Valley is an amazing recounting of of the winners, losers and forgotten innovators. It is the most complete view of the development of the PC from its earliest days and is a great lesson for all of us in disruptive industries.

on jasonevanish.com · 28 Oct 2020

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.