TY - BOOK AU - Cringely, Robert X. TI - Accidental empires: how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date SN - 9780887308550 AV - HD 9696.C63 .V51 1993 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Harper Business KW - COMPUTER INDUSTRY N1 - Includes index; Chapter 1. The demo-god -- Chapter 2. The tyranny of the normal distribution -- Chapter 3. Why they don't call it computer valley -- Chapter 4. Amateur hour -- Chapter 5. Role models -- Chapter 6. Chairman bill leads the happy workers in song -- Chapter 7. All ibm stories are true -- Chapter 8. Software envy -- Chapter 9. Clones -- Chapter 10. The prophet -- Chapter 11. Font wars -- Chapter 12. On the beach -- Chapter 13. Economics of scale -- Chapter 14. Counter-formation -- Chapter 15. Future computing -- Chapter 16. But wait, there's more -- Chapter 17. Do the wave ER -