The soul of a new machine
By: Tracy Kidder.
Series: [The modern library of the world's best books]
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Data General Corporation; Electronic digital computers -- Design and construction -- History
Description: "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit superminicomputer. A compelling account of individual sacrifice and human ingenuity, The Soul of a New Machine endures as the classic chronicle of the computer age and the masterminds behind its technological advances.".

"Tracy Kidder has written a new Introduction to this Modern Library edition."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Series statement from book jacket.
"Originally published in 1981 by Little Brown and Company"--T.p. verso.