B Book Review: Fire in the Valley
05.15.2025 — 3 min read — In Books
A few weeks ago, I committed the grave sin of confusing the Apple II and Commodore 64 floppy disk drives! Mea Culpa!As penance, I chose to read Michael Swaine’s Fire in the Valley, an engaging history of the Personal Computing Revolution. Michael Swaine, longtime editor and columnist of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, is a…