A glimpse of an important but overlooked history
I'm one of those who is interviewed about my work with Fred Moore in "Walking Rainbow". I wrote the following review of What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry), a book by New York Times reporter John Markoff in which Fred Moore is featured, for Peacework magazine:
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LIFE OUTSIDE THE MAINFRAME
"What the Dormouse Said: How the 60's Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" by John Markoff. Viking, 336 pp, 2005. Reviewed by Edward Hasbrouck, who is the child of a computer program (at least acording to his birth certificate, which says: "Father's occupation: computer program.") Convicted in Boston for organizing resistance to draft registration, he spent 6 months in a federal prison camp in 1984-1985. Shortly afterwards, he moved to San Francisco to take over from Fred Moore as one of the editors of...
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