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Adam DeConinck
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Computer History Reading List
A collection of resources about the history of computing, with no particular strategy.
PRs welcome -- I'm likely to read them if they look good!
Popular books
- Brian Bagnall, The Story of Commodore: A Company on the Edge
- Bell, Mudge, McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design
- Rod Canion, Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing
- Brian Dear, The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
- George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral
- Freiberger and Swaine, Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
- Jon Gertner, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- Katie Hafner, When Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
- Michael A Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
- Brian W Kernighan, UNIX: A History and a Memoir
- Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
- David Kushner, Masters of Doom
- Lécuyer, Brock, and Last, Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor
- Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- Scott McCartney, Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
- McNish and Silcoff, Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
- Charles J Murray, The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer
- M Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine
- TR Reid, The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
- Schein, DeLisi, Kampas, and Sonduk, DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation
- Randall Stross, Steve Jobs & The NeXT Big Thing
- Doron Swade, The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer
- Lamont Wood, Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution
- G Pascal Zachary, Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
- Torvalds and Diamond, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Documentaries
Historically-inspired fiction
These items are included more because they're fun, and less because they're expected to be historically-accurate. There are often some interesting gems in them, though!