From: bryan@wupost.wustl.edu (bryan o'connor)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Computer History/Biography/NonFiction Book List  (Version 1.0)
Date: 19 Aug 1992 00:58:10 -0500
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Keywords: books computers non-fiction

: Computer History/Biography/NonFiction Book List
: <version 1.0>

Thanks to all who responded.  There is sort of a format.  All questions,
comments, additions, kibo jokes, death threats to bryan@wugate.wustl.edu.

A good source for the following books is supposedly the Boston Computer
Museum Catalog.  Call them at 617.426.2800 and ask for one.

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Accidental Empires
 How the boys of Silicon Valley make their millons, battle foreign 
 competition, and still can't get a date.
 Robert X. Cringely
 324p
 Reading MA, Addison-Wesley, c1992
 0-201-57032-7

Ainsi naquit l'informatique (The Computer Comes of Age)
 The people, the hardware, and the software
 Rene Moreau, Translated by J. Howlett
 227p, ill
 Cambridge MA, MIT Press, c1984
 0-262-13194-3

Bit by Bit
 An Illustrated History of Computers
 Stan Augarten
 324p, ill
 New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1984
 0-89919-268-8 (hard)
 0-89919-302-1 (soft)

Blue Magic
 The people, power, and politics behind the IBM personal computer
 James Chposky and Ted Leonsis
 228p
 New York, Facts on File, c1988
 0-8160-1391-8

Breakthrough to the Computer Age
 [???]
 Harry Wulforst
 185p, ill
 New York, Scribner, c1982
 0-684-17499-5

The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann
 [???]
 Herman H. Goldstine
 378p, ill
 Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1972
 0-691-08104-2

Computer Lib; Dream Machines
 [texts bound together back-to-back and inverted]
 Ted Nelson
 178p 153p, ill
 Redmond, WA, Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, 1987
 0-914845-49-7

A Computer Perspective
 Background to the computer age
 by the office of Charles & Ray Eames
 174p, ill
 Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1990
 0-674-15626-9

The Computer Pioneers
 The making of the modern computer
 David Ritchie
 238p, ill
 New York, Simon&Schuster, c1986
 0-671-52397-X

The Cuckoo's Egg
 Tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage
 Clifford Stoll
 326p
 New York, Doubleday, c1989
 0-385-24946-2

Cyberpunk
 Outlaws and hackers on the computer frontier
 Katie Hafner and John Markoff
 368p
 New York, Simon&Schuster, c1991
 0-671-68322-5

Early British Computers
 The story of vintage computers and the people who built them
 Simon Lavington
 139p, ill
 Bedford MA, Digital Press, c1980
 0-932376-08-8

Electronic Computers
 A Historical Survey
 Saul Rosen
 Computing Surveys v1#1, March 1969

Fire in the Valley
 The making of the personal computer
 Paul Freiberger
 288p, ill
 Berkeley CA, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, c1984
 ???

Fumbling the Future
 How Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer
 Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander
 ???p
 New York, Quill, 1990
 0-688-09511-9

Hackers
 Heroes of the computer revolution
 Steven Levy
 458p
 Garden City NY, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984
 0-385-19195-2

Hard Drive
 Bill Gates and the making of Microsoft empire
 James Wallace and Jim Erickson
 426p, ill
 New York, Wiley, c1992
 0-471-56886-4

The Media Lab
 Inventing the Future at MIT
 Stewert Brand
 285p, ill
 New York, Penguin Books, 1988
 0-14-009701-5

The Micro Millenium
 [???]
 Christopher Evans
 255p
 New York, Viking Press, 1980
 0-670-47400-2

The New Alchemists
 Silicon Valley and the microelectronics revolution
 Dirk Hanson
 364p
 Boston, Little Brown, c1982
 0-316-34342-0

Portraits in Silicon
 [???]
 Robert Slater
 374p, ill
 Cambridge MA, MIT Press, c1987
 0-262-19262-4

Programmers at Work
 Interviews with 19 programmers that shaped the computer industry
 Susan M. Lammers
 391p, ill
 Redmond WA, Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, 1989
 1-55615-211-6

The Soul of a New Machine
 [data general]
 Tracy Kidder
 293p
 Boston, Little Brown, c1981
 0-316-49170-5

Sunburst
 The Ascent of Sun Microsystems
 Mark Hall and John Barry
 297p
 Chicago, Contemporary Books, c1990
 0-8092-4368-7
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