A plethora of color photos feature early screen shots and sedentary-looking Mac team members in tight t-shirts ("User Friendly!") and large glasses. Strictly for Silicon Valley-folk and Apple obsessives, Hertzfeld's short entries dwell on everything from mouse-scaling parameters to the eating habits of hardware engineer Burrell Smith. In 1978, Hertzfeld's world was rocked by his purchase of an Apple II by the next year, he was working for the fledgling company on the nascent Mac as a software engineer, co-writing the Mac's operating system. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īnother blog-turned-book (see Hertzfeld's this set of remembrances chronicles the birth of the Macintosh from inside the lab.
Now, over 20 years later, millions of people are benefiting from the technical achievements of this determined and brilliant group of people. The story comes to life through the book's portrait of the talented and often eccentric characters who made up the Macintosh team. Through lavish illustrations, period photos, and Hertzfeld's vivid first-hand accounts, Revolution in the Valley reveals what it was like to be there at the birth of the personal computer revolution. Hertzfeld manages to make his way onto the Macintosh research team, and the rest is history. He sees that Steve Jobs is luring some of the company's most brilliant innovators to work on a tiny research effort the Macintosh. When Revolution in the Valley begins, Hertzfeld is working on Apple's first attempt at a low-cost, consumer-oriented computer: the Apple II. One of the chosen few who worked with the mercurial Steve Jobs, you might call him the ultimate insider. That's because author Andy Hertzfeld was a core member of the team that built the Macintosh system software, and a key creator of the Mac's radically new user interface software. The stories in Revolution in the Valley come on extremely good authority. The book traces the development of the Macintosh, from its inception as an underground skunkworks project in 1979 to its triumphant introduction in 1984 and beyond. Revolution in the Valley traces this vision back to its earliest roots: the hallways and backrooms of Apple, where the groundbreaking Macintosh computer was born. There was a time, not too long ago, when the typewriter and notebook ruled, and the computer as an everyday tool was simply a vision.
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