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An anecdotal history of the computer industry, this book focuses on odd personalities steve jobes, steve wozniak, mitch kapor and bill gates. Triumph of the nerds is a 1996 britishamerican television documentary, produced by john gau productions and oregon public broadcasting for channel 4 and pbs. Cringely freely admits, it is a brilliant book on the history of the computer tech industry in northern. Accidental empires was my attempt to blatantly apply the breezy. Cringely english book in pdf for free download now accidental empires how the boys of silicon valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still cant get a date by robert x. Accidental empires download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. I read robert x cringleys book accidental empires shortly after it was published in 1992. Share photos and videos, send messages and get updates. A friend gave me bob cringelys accidental empires years ago.