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XII - List of computer-folklore related books
A good source for the following books is supposedly the Boston Computer Museum Catalog. Call them at (617)426-2800 (USA) and ask for one.
Last updated: Sat 14 Nov 1998
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Accidental Empires How the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date. Robert X. Cringely 324p Reprint: Harper Business, 1996 0-887308-55-4 More on this book |
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Accidental Millionaire The rise and fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer Lee Butcher 224p, ill New York, Paragon House, c1988 0-913729-79-5 More on this book |
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Ainsi naquit l'informatique (The Computer Comes of Age) The people, the hardware, and the software [This book has a strong IBM bias] Rene Moreau, Translated by J. Howlett 227p, ill Cambridge MA, MIT Press, c1984 0-262-13194-3 |
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Approaching Zero Data Crime and the Computer Underworld Bryan Clough and Paul Mungo 242 p Faber and Faber, 1992 0-571-16813-2 More on this book |
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Artificial Life The quest for a new creation Steven Levy 390 p Reprint: Vintage Books, 1993 0-679-74389-8 More on this book |
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Big Blue IBM's use and abuse of Power Richard Thomas DeLamarter 393p New York, Dodd Mead, c1986 0-396-08515-6 Paperback: Pan Books, London, 1988 0-330-30923-0 |
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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) More on this book |
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Blue Magic The people, power, and politics behind the IBM personal computer James Chposky and Ted Leonsis 228p New York, Facts on File, 1988 0-81601-391-8 More on this book |
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Breakthrough to the Computer Age Harry Wulforst 185p, ill New York, Scribner, c1982 0-684-17499-5 More on this book |
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Burn Rate How I survived the gold rush years on the Internet Michael Wolff 268 p New York, Simon & Schuster, 1998 0-684-84881-3 More on this book |
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A Business and its Beliefs The ideas that helped build IBM Thomas J. Watson ??? p New York, McGraw-Hill, 1963 0-070-68485-5 More on this book |
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Computer Capers Tales of Electronic Thievery, Embezzlement, and Fraud Thomas Whiteside ??? p Thomas Crowell Co., NY, 1978 0-690-01743-X More on this book |
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The Computer Comes of Age / Ainsi naquit l'informatique R. Moreau, English translation by J. Howlett 1981, translated 1984, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA ISBN 0-262-36103-2 |
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Computer Engineering A DEC view of hardware systems design Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara 585 p Bedford, Digital Press, c1978 0-131-62652-3 / 0-932376-00-2 More on this book |
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The Computer Entrepeneurs Who's making it big and how in America's upstart industry Robert Levering, Michael Katz, Milton Moskowitz 481p, ill New York, New American Library, c1984 0-453-00477-6 |
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The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann Herman H. Goldstine 378p, ill Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1993 (reprint) 0-691-02367-0 More on this book |
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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 More on this book |
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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 |
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The Computer Pioneers The making of the modern computer David Ritchie 238p, ill New York, Simon&Schuster, c1986 0-671-52397-X |
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Der Computer - Mein Lebenswerk [in German - Translations in other languages ???] Konrad Zuse Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, ..., 1984 ISBN 3-540-13814-5 ISBN 0-387-13814-5 |
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The Conquest of the Microchip Hans J. Queisser 200 p Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1988 ???? ISBN |
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Crime by Computer Donn B. Parker ??? p Charles Scribner & Sons, NY, 1976 0-684-15576-1 |
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The Cuckoo's Egg Tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage Clifford Stoll 326p New York, Doubleday, 1995 (reprint) 0-671-72688-9 More on this book |
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Cyberpunk Outlaws and hackers on the computer frontier Katie Hafner and John Markoff 368p New York, Simon&Schuster, 1995 (updated edition) 0-684-81862-0 More on this book |
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The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer A view of the future of the software industry Edward Yourdon 352p, ill Englewood Cliffs NJ, Yourdon Press, 1993 (reprint) 0-131-91958-X More on this book |
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The Devouring Fungus: Tales of the Computer Age Tales of the computer age Karla Jennings 237p, ill New York, W.W.Norton, c1990 0-393-02897-6 |
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Digital Deli The comprehensive user-lovable menu of computer lore, cuture, lifestyles and fancy [it comes close to living up to this subtitle] by The Lunch Group & Guests; Edited by Steve Ditlea 382 p. New York, Workman Publishing, c1984 ISBN 0-89480-591-6 |
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Digital Equipment Corporation The first twenty-five years Kenneth H. Olsen ??? p New York, Newcomwn Society in north America, 1983 ???? ISBN |
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Digital at Work Snapshots from the first thirty-five years edited by Jamie Parker-Pearson Digital Press, Burlington, MA, c1992, Softbound ISBN 0-13-213489-6 / Prentice-Hall ISBN 1-55558-092-0 / Digital Press Digital Order Number EY-J826E-DP |
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The Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer Age Jon Palfreman and Doron Swade BBC Books, London, 1991 ISBN 0-563-36221-9 |
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Early British Computers The story of vintage computers and the people who built them Simon Lavington 139p, ill Manchester University Press, 1980 0-7190-0803-4 [hard cover] 0-7190-0810-7 [paperback] Bedford MA, Digital Press, c1980 0-932376-08-8 |
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Electronic Computers A Historical Survey Saul Rosen Computing Surveys v1#1, March 1969 |
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Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, 2nd ed. [noticeably IBMish viewpoint] editor Anthony Ralston, associate Editor Edwin D. Reilly Jr. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1983 ISBN 0-442-24496-7 |
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Faster than Thought editor B. V. Bowden Pitman, New York and London, 1953 |
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Father, Son & Co. My life at IBM and beyond Thomas J. Watson 468 p New York, Bantam Books, c1990 0-553-07011-8 More on this book |
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Fire in the Valley The making of the personal computer Paul Freiberger 288p, ill Berkeley CA, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, c1984 0-88134-121-5 More on this book |
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From Dits to Bits A personal history of the electronic computer Herman Lukoff 219p, ill Portland OR, Robotic Press, c1979 0-89661-002-0 |
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From ENIAC to UNIVAC an Apraisal of the Eckert-Mauchly Computers Nancy Stern ca. 290 p. / Hardbound Digital Press, Bedford, Mass., 1981 0-932376-14-2, Digital Order No. EY-AX013-DP |
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Fumbling the Future How Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander 274 p New York, Quill, 1990 0-688-09511-9 More on this book |
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Hackers Heroes of the computer revolution Steven Levy 458p Delta Books, 1994 (reprint) 0-385-19195-2 More on this book |
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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 More on this book |
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Hermann Hollerith Forgotten Giant of Information Processing Geoffrey D. Austrian Columbia University Press, New York, 1982 0-231-05146-8 |
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History of Computing An Encyclopedia of the People and Machines that Made Computing History Mark W. Greenia 800p Lexikon Services Publishing, 1995 0-944601-499 (Published in diskette for IBM-PC compatibles) |
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A History of Computing Technology From the earliest written numbers to the IBM 360 Michael R. Williams 430p Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, c1985 0-13-389917-9 |
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A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century Edited by N. Metropolis, J. Howlett and Gian-Carlo Rota Academic Press Inc., New York, London, ..., c1980 0-12-491650-3 |
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Hypergrowth The rise and fall of Osborne Computer Corporation Adam Osborne ??? p New York, Avon, c1985 0-380-69960-5 More on this book |
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The Little Kingdom The private story of Apple Computer Michael Moritz ??? p. New York, Paragon House, c1988 ???? ISBN |
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The Macintosh Way The Art of Guerilla Management Guy Kawasaki 210p+14p Glenview, Illinois & London, Scott, Foresman and Company, c1990 0-673-46175-0 [contains many anecdotes and folklore about the first days of Macintosh] |
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The Making of Microsoft How Bill Gates and his team created the world's most successful software company Daniel Ichbiah & Susan L. Knepper 304 p Rocklin, Prima Pub., 1992 (reprint) 1-559-58225-1 More on this book |
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The Media Lab Inventing the Future at MIT Stewert Brand 285p, ill New York, Penguin Books, 1988 0-14-009701-5 More on this book |
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Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer Maurice Vincent Wilkes The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1985 ISBN 0-262-23122-0 |
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The Micro Millennium [History of the computer, state of micros in 1980, and some very interesting ideas of where the technology was headed -- he died in 1979] Christopher Evans 308 p. New York, Washington Square Press, March 1981, c1979 ISBN 0-671-42184-0 |
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Microchip The story of a revolution and the man who made it [Originally published as The Chip] T. R. Reid 240 p Pan, Collins, London, c1984 ???? ISBN |
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The Mighty Micro The impact of the computer revolution Christopher Evans 255p London, Gollancz, 1982 ??? ISBN |
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The New Alchemists Silicon Valley and the microelectronics revolution Dirk Hanson 364p Boston, Little Brown, c1982 0-316-34342-0 |
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The New Hacker's Dictionary Jargon file in print Eric Raymond. 433 p The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, USA. 1996 0-262-68069 More on this book |
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Odyssey Pepsi to Apple - A journey of adventure, ideas, and the future John Sculley with John A. Byrne 450p, ill New York, Harper&Row, c1987 0-06-015780-1 More on this book |
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Once Upon A Time In Computerland The Amazing Billion-Dollar Tale of Bill Millard's Computerland Empire Jonathan Littman 413p Simon and Schuster / Touchstone, 1990 0-671-70218-1 0-671-69392-1 Pbk |
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Only the Paranoid Survive How to exploit the crisis points that challenge every company and career Andrew S. Grove 210 p Currency/Doubleday, 1996 0-385-48258-2 More on this book |
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The Origins of Digital Computers Selected Papers/3rd Edition Brian Randell, ed. 580p, ill New York, Springer-Verlag, 1982 0-387-11319-3 |
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Portraits in Silicon [Interviews with 30+ influential hardware and software inventors] Robert Slater 374p, ill Cambridge MA, MIT Press, c1987 0-262-69131-0 |
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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 More on this book |
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Project Whirlwind History of a Pioneer Computer Kent C. Redmond & Thomas M. Smith 296 p. / Softbound Digital Press, History of Computing Series, Bedford, c1980 ISBN 0-932376-09-6, Digital Order No. EY-8351E-DP |
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Reckoners The Prehistory of the Digital Computer ... Paul E. Ceruzzi Greenwodd Press, Westport, Connecticut - London, England 0-313-23382-9 |
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The Soul of a New Machine [data general] Tracy Kidder 293p Modern Library, 1997 (reprint) 0-316-49170-5 More on this book |
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Steve Jobs: the journey is the reward [???] Jeffrey S. Young ??? p. Glenville, Scott, Foresman, c1988 ???? ISBN |
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The Sun Never Sets on IBM [???] Nancy Foy ??? p Cambridge, MIT Press, c1981 ???? ISBN |
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Sunburst The Ascent of Sun Microsystems Mark Hall and John Barry 297p Chicago, Contemporary Books, c1990 0-8092-4368-7 More on this book |
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The Supermen The story of Seymour Cray and the technical wizards behind the supercomputer Charles J. Murray 232 p John Wiley & Sons, 1997 0-471-04885-2 More on this book |
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The Tao of Programming Compuarcheological guide to the mysterious past of programming Geoffrey James ??? p Info Books, Santa Monica, Calif., USA. 1987 0-931137-07-1 More on this book |
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Think A biography of the Watsons and IBM William Rodgers 320p+16p (US edition) London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970 (in US: Stein and Day, New York) SBN 8128-1226-3 |
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The Ultimate Entrepreneur The story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation Glenn Rifkin ??? p Chicago, Contemporary Books, 1988 ???? ISBN |
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West of Eden The end of innocence at Apple Computer Frank Rose 356p New York, Penguin Books, c1989 0-14-009372-9 |
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Zap ! The rise and fall of Atari Scott Cohen 177 p. New York, McGraw-Hill, c1984 |
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The Zen of Programming Koans, haiku, folktales and other stories of programming Geoffrey James. ??? p Info Books, Santa Monica, Calif., USA. 1988 0-931137-09-8 More on this book |
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