Notes

• "John Markoff’s What the Dormouse Said is the never-before -told story of the political, social, and cultural forces that helped shape the personal computer in the 1960s and early 1970s. The epicenter of this activity was the area around Stanford University, which offered the perfect confluence of cutting-edge science and countercultural passion, and its driving force was what would one day come to be known as the Hacker Ethic - the notion that sharing information on freely should be the foundation and goal of all computing. Few people today realize that among the unlikely ingredients that contributed to the computer revolution were LSD and est, the Whole Earth Catalog and the first storefront computer centers, the Homebrew Computer Club and research centers that were as likely to have the air of communes as of labs, and the first coin operated computer game."–BOOK JACKET