Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.

LEVY, Steven .

Item Number: 140919

New York: Anchor Press/ Doubelday, 1984.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page, “To hackers, a program was an organic entity that had a life independent from that of its author. Best Steven Levy.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Tamura. A unique example, rare and desirable signed.

Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems. They had a shared sense of values, known as "the hacker ethic" that still thrives today. Hackers captures a seminal period in recent history when underground activities blazed a trail for today's digital world, from MIT students finagling access to clunky computer-card machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II.