"Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance" [videorecording] undated

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"Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance" [videorecording] undated

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Interviews with inventors, scientists, company founders, CEOs, authors, and Stanford professors and researchers pertaining to the history of the electronics revolution, along with images from historic videos and still photographs. Narrated by Walter Cronkite with additional commentary by Jim Gibbons, Mike Malone, and John R. McLaughlin. Persons interviewed include Linus Pauling, David Packard, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy, Jim Clark, Larry Ellison, T. J. Rodgers, James Morgan, Paul Berg, Carl Djerassi, and Donald Kennedy. Two songs by the Grateful Dead are included on the soundtrack.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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