Found this book at Fry's Electronics this afternoon, on the Bargain Book shelf. I've wanted to read this one for a while.

Either I was spoiled by Hackers, or this book was a little dry. Maybe a little of both. Still, I did find it interesting enough to finish it. After the first third of the book, the storm of new characters kind of tapers off, but it's still a little hard to remember who was who. Or maybe it's just that the main character of the book is The Computer, which we watch evolve from punch-card-fed, vacuum-tube-filled bohemoths, to time-sharing TV screens, to the Xerox Alto, and finally to the Home Brew Computer Club's proto-PCs.