The Soul of a New Machine
By: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780380599318
Copyright date: 1981
Subjects: Informatica; Design and construction; Ouvrages de vulgarisation; Computer engineering; Conception et construction; Ordinateurs; Electronic digital computers; Data General Corporation; Popular works; History
Notes: Originally published in 1981 by Little Brown and Company.

"First Avon printing, August, 1982"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : -- A; title: good man in a storm -- -- 1.; title: How to make a lot of money -- -- 2. The; title: wars -- -- 3.; title: Building a team -- -- 4.; title: Wallach's golden moment -- -- 5.; title: Midnight programmer -- -- 6.; title: Flying upside down -- -- 7. La; title: Machine -- -- 8. The; title: wonderful micromachines -- -- 9. A; title: workshop -- -- 10. The; title: case of the missing NAND gate -- -- 11.; title: Shorter than a season -- -- 12.; title: Pinball -- -- 13.; title: Going to the fair -- -- 14. The; title: last crunch -- -- 15.; title: Canards -- -- 16.; title: Dinosaurs --; title: Epilogue --; title: Acknowledgments.