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Saw an interesting-looking list of computing history books recommended over on Twitter:

- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop)
- Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Michael Hiltzik)
- Showstopper: The breakneck race to create Windows NT and the next generation at Microsoft (G. Pascal Zachary)
- Softwar: an intimate portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle (Matthew Symonds)
- Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (Wallace & Erickson)
- The Big Score: The billion dollar story of Silicon Valley (Michael S. Malone)

Would love to see what my Fedi friends recommend, too!

11 December at 22:32 | Open on merveilles.town
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Gosha
Devine Lu Linvega

@gosha

Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice: Glen Krasner
Soul Of A New Machine: Tracy Kidder
What the Dormouse Said: John Markoff
Technophilia and Its Discontents: Ellen Ullman
The Invisible Computer: Donald A. Norman
Who Owns The Future: Jaron Lanier

11 December at 22:36 | Open on merveilles.town
Gosha

@neauoire Thank you very much, those look great!

11 December at 22:46 | Open on merveilles.town
Devine Lu Linvega

@gosha Dealers Of Lightning is probably my favourite from your list, I'd start with that one : )

12 December at 3:20 | Open on merveilles.town
Chip

@gosha Can’t have any list of historical computer books without Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib/Dream Machines. It’s a survey of the pre-PC world of computing and culture. Less of an academic study and more of a meandering report (and frequently a rant), but every time I look at it I find some horrible truth about the information age he identified 50 years ago.

11 December at 23:05 | Open on awesome.garden
Gosha

@bytex64 That sounds great, tbh. Thank you, adding it to my list!

11 December at 23:25 | Open on merveilles.town
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