Bright Boys: The Making of Information Technology
Bright Boyscuts right to the heart of how complex technologic systems are conceived, incubated, and grown across generations. Tom's clever writing style draws a reader into the story and the remarkable depth and breadth of his research holds the reader firm, often enthralled, throughout. This is a remarkable case study of the birth and development of a technological system that indispensably beats as the heart of the economy, communications, transportation, and culture circulating life's blood of information around the globe in the blink of an eye. --Dik Daso, Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum.A fascinating story of how it felt to be present at the creation of the Information Age, at a time when, as the author says, there was less than a megabyte of computer memory on the whole planet. --Paul E. Ceruzzi Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum.Astonishingly rich and broad recapturing of the subject period. Marvelous and exciting writing! --Wes Clark, bright boy designer of the TX-0 and TX-2 computers.