The Peopling of Silicon Valley – Table of Contents

The Peopling of Silicon Valley, 1940 to the Present Day: An Oral History

Preface                                                                                                                                   

1: The Valley of Heart’s Delight and Stanford’s Woes

2: Wartime

3: The First Wave: The GIs

4: The Changing Countryside: 1940s to Mid-1950s

5: Early Electronics: IBM, Varian, HP, and Others

6: The Second Wave: Lockheed, 1956-1960s

7: Blitzkrieg: 1950s and 1960s

8: Growing Up in the Valley, 1950s and 1960s

9: The Third Wave: The Chip Makers, 1960s to Early 1980s

10: A Valley Reinvented: 1960s and 1970s

11: Out and About in the 1950s to1970s

12: Mountain People

13: Convulsions: Late 1960s to Mid-1970s

14: The Fourth Wave: Minicomputers, Late 1970s to 1980s

15: Stories from New Immigrants

16: More Convulsions: Mid-1980s

17: Growing Up in the Valley, 1980s to Early 2000s

18: The Fifth Wave: The Software and Web Developers

19: Blowing Bubbles and Funny Money: 1995 to 2001

20: After the Dust Settled. . . Or Has It?

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography                                                                                                         

Photo Credits                                                                                                  

Acknowledgements                                                                         

Index