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. Revolution in the Valley traces this vision back to its earliest roots: the hallways and backrooms of Apple, wherethe groundbreaking Macintosh computer was born. 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. The stories in Revolution in the alley come on extremely good authority. 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. One of the chosen few who workedwith the mercurial Steve Jobs, you might call him the ultimate insider. When Revolution in the Valley begins, Hertzfeld is working on Apple"s first attempt at a low-cost, consumer-oriented computer: the Apple II. He sees...