"How the sixties counter-culture shaped the personal computer industry"

Anyone read it?  An eye opener for me, having limited exposure to pre-PC computer history.

The book covers the interleaving of the lives of key people in the era including activity at Stanford- Doug Engelbart
and his Augmenting Human Intellect project, the success and failures of his oN-Line System (NLS),
the players at the Stanford AI lab (SAIL), Peoples Computer, Whole Earth Catalog, events leading up to Xerox PARC
and concluding around the time of the Homebrew Computer Club. 
Many partook in "California Dreamin' " experiences with LSD experimentation (including Engelbart :O) , antiware efforts, and EST :O

Not quite a "can't put it down" read, but very illuminating at the least, I'd rate it quite good.

For membership with light exposure to computing history before microprocessors,
may I recommend watching Engelbart's Mother of All Demos, 1968 on his NLS system, demonstrating his
ground breaking interactive computing system complete with mouse, full screen editing,
outlining, and linking of information (hyperlink ish) - remember this is at the time when most considered
the way to run a computer was to load it with a stack of punched cards and receiving a paper print out of results.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
The book cited recalls how absolutely electrifying the demo was to the audience for its material
as well as the uncommon if not unheard of video conferencing and screen projection system
employed in the demo.