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    <name><![CDATA[Chris]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[only those interested in a 50,000 ft view of the history of computing]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Sep 19 00:38:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book does a decent job of covering the history of the personal computer since the 1960s. Still, it falls flat, with pedestrian explanations dumbed down to the point where even those clueless about computers would feel their intelligence being insulted.<br/><br/>As well, while Freiberger and Swaine cover some of the people and businesses involved in the history of personal computing, they forgot to cover quite a few others, passing them by at best. And to make matters worse, events in the book aren't exactly chronological; for the most part they are, but there's just a few jumps and fallbacks throughout the book to be noticeable and annoying.<br/><br/>I felt that this book wasn't worth my time; I could have done a better job of learning the same things by crawling Wikipedia for a few hours and organizing everything myself.]]></body>
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