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Michael Swaine

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Biography

Michael Swaine, editor for the Pragmatic Bookshelf, has been writing about technology full-time since he helped launch InfoWorld back in 1981. He and Paul Freiberger wrote Fire in the Valley, the seminal history of the personal computer and the source for the award-winning movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, and co-wrote the article on computer history for Encyclopedia Britannica. He was editor-in-chief/-at-large for Dr. Dobb’s Journal forlikeever and launched several magazines plus four regular columns in MacUser magazine and columns in a dozen other magazines. He and partner Nancy Groth live in Oregon.

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Articles

Following are the articles that Michael Swaine has published with The Pragmatic Programmers on Medium:

Bill Gates, Hacker

Woz and the Founding of Apple

Ted Nelson’s Unfinished Revolution

The Altair’s First Recital

Gary and the Astrology Machine

I Loved That Trash-80

Book

Book by Michael Swaine from The Pragmatic Bookshelf:

Fire in the Valley