What the Dormouse Said

<b>This makes entertaining reading. Many accounts of the birth of personal computing have been written but this is the first close look at the drug habits of the earliest pioneers. <i>--New York Times</i></b> <p/>Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff's landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs--the culture being counter- and the consciousness expanded sometimes chemically. It's a brilliant evocation of Stanford California in the 1960s and '70s where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a means for freeing minds and information. In these pages one encounters Ken Kesey and the phone hacker Cap'n Crunch est and LSD <i>The Whole Earth Catalog</i> and the Homebrew Computer Lab. <i>What the Dormouse Said</i> is a poignant funny and inspiring book by one of the smartest technology writers around.