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  1. fr1 Excerpt from President Bush's letter printed in <i>COMDEX/Fall '91 Program & Exhibits Guide</i> (Las Vegas, NV: The Interface Group, 1991), 10.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. fr2 Helen Custer, <i>Inside Windows NT</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1993), 13.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  3. fr3 "Oral history of Dave Cutler," interview by Grant Saviers, February 25, 2016, Computer History Museum, Fremont, California, 1-40, here at 21. https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2018/10/102717163-05-01-acc.pdf. Accessed July 12, 2019.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  4. fr4 Kawasaki, <i>Macintosh Way</i>, 2.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  5. fr5 David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee, <i>Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries</i> (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006), 97-101. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  6. fr6 Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff, <i>The Spiritual Virtuoso: Personal Faith and Social Transformation</i> (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  7. fr7 Steven Levy, <i>Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution</i>, Revised edition (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2010), 222.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  8. fr8 David H. Ahl, "The First West Coast Computer Faire," <i>Creative Computing</i> 3, no. 4 (July-August, 1977): 99.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  9. fr9 See <i>6th West Coast Computer Faire Program</i> (April 1981), accessed on March 28, 2019. https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2018/12/102725949-05-06-acc.pdf.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  10. fr10 <i>COMDEX/Fall '88 Program & Exhibits Guide</i> (Las Vegas, NV: The Interface Group, 1988).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  11. fr11 <i>COMDEX/Fall '90 Program & Exhibits Guide</i> (Las Vegas, NV: The Interface Group, 1990).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  12. fr12 Dean S. Holmes, email correspondence with the author, September 21, 2019.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  13. fr13 <i>COMDEX/Fall '91 Program & Exhibits Guide</i>, 622.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  14. fr14 Ted Smalley Bowen and Carolyn A. April, "Comdex starts to lose some luster," <i>Info World</i>, November 25, 1996, 3..Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  15. fr15 2000 U.S. Census data summarized in Evans, Hagiu, and Schmalen see, <i>Invisible Engines</i>, 84.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  16. fr16 Andy P. Bender, "Letters," <i>Dr. Dobb's Journal</i>, June, 1991, 12.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  17. fr17 Steve McConnell, <i>Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1993). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  18. fr18 McConnell, <i>Code Complete</i>, xi.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  19. fr19 Steve McConnell, <i>Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1996). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  20. fr20 McConnell, <i>Rapid Development</i>, 352, 365.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  21. fr21 See Steve Maguire, <i>Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1993). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  22. fr22 Steve Maguire, <i>Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1994). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  23. fr23 Bill Gates quoted in "More than 45,000 developers see public unveiling of new Microsoft Visual Studio 97 at Developer Days events worldwide," Microsoft Corporation, March 18, 1997.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  24. fr24 <i>Enterprise Systems Integration</i>, ed. John Wyzalek (Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach, 2000).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  25. fr25 Microsoft advertisement (2-page spread) in <i>Dr. Dobb's Journal</i> 16, no. 4 (April 1991), 1.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  26. fr26 Microsoft Corporation, "Corporations Embrace Visual Studio 97 Enterprise Edition for Mission-Critical Application Development Projects," February 3, 1998.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  27. fr27 Helen Custer, <i>Inside Windows NT</i> (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1992), 3.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  28. fr28 Evans, Hagiu, and Schmalensee, <i>Invisible Engines</i>, 84.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  29. fr29 John Connell, <i>Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming</i> (Birmingham, UK: Wrox Press, 1998), back cover copy. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library

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    Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America
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