"Originally published in 1981 by Little Brown and Company"--T.p. verso.
Content Note
Prologue :A good man in a storm -- 1. How to make a lot of money -- 2. The wars -- 3. Building a team -- 4. Wallach's golden moment -- 5. Midnight programmer -- 6. Flying upside down -- 7. La Machine -- 8. The wonderful micromachines -- 9. A workshop -- 10. The case of the missing NAND gate -- 11. Shorter than a season -- 12. Pinball -- 13. Going to the fair -- 14. The last crunch -- 15. Canards -- 16. Dinosaurs -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.