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The Soul of a New Machine

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Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winning phenomenon! From the bestselling author of House and Among Schoolchildren comes the astonishing true story of the "Hardy Boys" and "Microkids" of Data General Corporation - dedicated technological wizards who envisioned the impossible...then battled time, corporate intrigue and the odds to bring their dream to breathtaking life. A mome...more

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Published June 1st 2000 by Back Bay Books (first published 1981)

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Sep 03, 2010 Paul Ivanov rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I can't believe this is not required reading for a computer architecture course!

In my high school Biology, H.G. Wells' The Time Machine was assigned to be read over the winter vacation. It was a bit of a stretch, but did make the class a bit more interesting. As I read Kidder describe the toil undertaken in creating this new computer - working under the pressure on the brink of insanity to find those incessant bugs - I thought this the perfect companion for the CS154B Computer Architecture clas...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Brendan Brohan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Hard to believe that it's coming up for 35 years since the events in this book took place. It was a different time. A time when the frontiers in computer hardware were open and worth fighting for; when margins in hardware were, by present day standards, stratospheric, and when computer professionals/nerds/geeks were cheap and in it for the challenge. This is the true story of a small team of people with a common goal - to give birth to a new computer that will save a company. The different chara...more

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Jul 11, 2011 Brian rated it 4 of 5 stars

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(4.0) Snapshot in time in the history of computing

Retells the story of the development of the first 32-bit minicomputer offering from Data General (I'm not nerdy/old enough to really know about them). Much of it centers on the defiant attitude that the engineers took to build this computer even when it appeared that Data General was doing its best not to make it happen (relatively low pay, few resources, few engineers, crazy deadline). But they do (only about 50% over schedule), through allnight...more

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Mar 16, 2009 Claire S rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-not-at-all, form_complexia, f_interpretations, glimpses-considerable, psyche-of, science, sobriety-spirituality, workplace, award_pulitzer

Read this book in that early 80's period, when I was pre-CSci at the U.. played a non-insignificant role in my deciding to switch careers. Not because I wasn't willing to work hard, but because the picture he painted was of very-realistic sounding imbalance. Long-term, structural imbalance and unwellness. And I knew myself well enough to know that that work environment wouldn't be in my best interest.

I have - in accounting - worked long hours sometimes, as many as 60 hour weeks repeatedly; some...more

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Nov 05, 2012 Darlene rated it 4 of 5 stars

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The soul of a new machine gives a colorful account of the work culture and personalities that shaped the successful creation of a new computer in the seventies. A culture of long hours, punishing schedules and fierce competition produced a working new machine in a very short timeframe. While I wouldn't recommend attempting to recreate that culture, secretive, harsh and unforgiving as it was, there are some aspects that seem worth considering. The original vision was obviously important. Just as...more

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Feb 19, 2012 Ilya rated it 4 of 5 stars

I knew that Philip Greenspun compared this book unfavorably to Douglas Coupland's Microserfs; I have read Microserfs and wanted to do the comparison myself. In the 1970s, now-defunct Data General was a manufacturer of minicomputers, a competitor of the better-known DEC. It produced a popular 16-bit computer called Eclipse, which competed head-on with DEC's PDP-11. When DEC came out with VAX-11 in 1977, a 32-bit computer that could address far more memory than PDP-11 and was several times faster,...more

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Sep 25, 2011 Pjr rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Compelling contemporary fable that has aged remarkably well.

I read this at university, while doing my undergrad electrical engineering degree. Even as I was reading, the machine at the core Kidders narrative, Data General's Eclipse computer, was on its way to being (if not already) obsolete. But the descriptions of the engineers, their struggles, their triumphs, their obsession with building the machine with a mixture of elegance and kludge, are timeless. They could just as readily be used for a...more

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Jun 26, 2011 Jeremy Preacher rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biography, business

I came at this book from an unusual perspective - I had more of an interest in Tom West as a person than the now-historical business side of things. It more or less did what I wanted it to do from that angle, although it's not actually a biography, but the book really shines in its capsule descriptions of all the members of the team.

I've worked in high-pressure tech industry jobs, and I'm sort of depressed to see that things were the same then as they are now - unrealistic deadlines, bullshit fr...more

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Mar 12, 2010 Ben Haley rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Soul of A New Machine is an engineers soap opera following a rag-tag team of neophytes driven by their own Captain Ahab to build a revolutionary 32-bit computer for the now-defunct Data General in the late 1970s. Tracey Kiddler, the author, was given a rare opportunity as a journalist to follow the team's progress from within and his story shows an insiders knowledge. He breaks down the complex technical nature of the task through a series of straightforward analogies and by doing so enables...more

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Apr 16, 2010 Andrew Ludke rated it 4 of 5 stars

I grew up in a house where my father was starting an engineering company. He built computers from scratch that we integrated to automate complex industrial processes. At times, I would come home from school to stuff and solder circuit boards in the basement workshop. We had circuit board etching tanks and solder tanks and some of the earliest mini computers to hit the market. I got my first taste of programming during the early 1980's when PC's were just being invented. In 'The Soul of a New Mac...more

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Oct 08, 2011 John E. Branch Jr. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: computers-history, techno-thriller

Some comments in lieu of a review:

Anyone interested in the characters presented in this remarkable, Pulitzer-winning book by Tracy Kidder should consider reading a follow-up published by Wired in 2000…

Some more recent readers appear to have found the book "dated" in one way or another, a historical relic of the late 1970s. Granted, the products of computer technology have vastly changed. But the processes by which computer technology is developed may not have changed so much, if at all, and in a...more

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Jan 16, 2010 Peter Hiller rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book was interesting, especially when you read it 30 years later when the things that are being described don't really exist anymore. It more of a historical book than anything nowadays. The machines they were talking about ended up being an area that for 25 years was viewed as an evolutionary dead end, but it's sad to read this and learn about all the work that went into it when you know what happened.

The characters are interesting and give a real idea of what it would have been like to ex...more

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May 17, 2010 Alexander Case rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of computer history, and people who like profiles of people.

Shelves: computer-history

About 6 years ago, a sort of scandal rocked the gaming industry related to a blog post by a woman known as "EASpouse". The blog post criticized EA's labor practices at the time, which required employees to work massive amounts of unpaid overtime, as they were salaried employees. By massive, I mean about 12-16 hour days, 6 days a week, regularly. This was a big deal among gamers, because very few of us had ever had the opportunity to peek behind the curtain like this. It was likely that most of u...more About 6 years ago, a sort of scandal rocked the gaming industry related to a blog post by a woman known as "EASpouse". The blog post criticized EA's labor practices at the time, which required employees to work massive amounts of unpaid overtime, as they were salaried employees. By massive, I mean about 12-16 hour days, 6 days a week, regularly. This was a big deal among gamers, because very few of us had ever had the opportunity to peek behind the curtain like this. It was likely that most of us viewed game development with a variation of the way that Roald Dahl as a child imagined the inside of the Cadbury Chocolate Factory near the boarding school he attended (which later led to Charlie & the Chocolate Factory).

The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder shows that such working conditions are nothing new. The book follows the development process of Data General's micro-computer (sort of like a rack mounted server, except it's the size of the whole unit, but essentially only being one of the server nodes), that would be a successor to their Eclipse line of microcomputers, code named the Eagle, and later released as the MV/8000. The book goes into both the personal and technical aspects of the development process, profiling the various men (and a few women) involved in the project, and giving a description of the technical aspects of the process for the layman.

While the technical bits (pardon the pun), are enjoyable, the book's strength, and where it spends most of its time, is in profiles of the people. The book paints a bleak picture of the inner workings of Data General. The working conditions at Data General, particularly on this project, are brutal. Much as with EA Spouse, employees are salaried, with no overtime pay, and work 12-16 hour days, 6 days a week. As the project goes on, project leads and younger employees are worn down. Often, employees at Data General observe that the company brings in a lot of new fresh recruits, and few stay at the company after they turn 30. Many of these new recruits drop out for various reasons, and often employees discuss the company's sweat-shop like working conditions. As the project moves into the heat of summer, the air conditioning breaks, turning their windowless basement office into a sweltering oven, which they can't even leave the door open for, for security reasons. Only after the employees strike do they fix the air conditioning.

By the end of the book, several of the project leads, themselves burned out, leave the company, and while some of the employees on the Eagle team stay on, many more have left.

Tracy Kidder got an impressive amount of access at Data General when he wrote this book, and while he's honest and truthful about what happened there, Data General, at least to my 21st century mind, comes out of this book smelling like shit. I base this solely on what Data General does, and I know this because Kidder doesn't whitewash - he thankfully calls it right down the middle.

While the book is never accusatory, it makes clear that Data General is a predatory employer. It preys on young, semi-idealistic college Engineering graduates, who don't have a lot of job experience and are looking more for interesting problems to solve, interesting work to do, than a big paycheck. They promise them interesting problems, and briefly, very briefly, warn them that there will be long hours and possibly a limited social life, that this job will become their life. To meet the deadlines required of them they will have to give up friends, family, and the outside world, living only the job, for months or years at a time. Plus, because they're salaried, despite all the hours they get that would be overtime, they're only making their standard pay grade.

It chews up 22-24 year old kids, and spits them out at 30, burnouts who had great potential, but were consumed by their jobs. They don't say if many of these former employees stay in the industry, and some certainly do - Ray Ozzie, creator of Lotus Notes and current Chief Software Architect at Microsoft is a Data General veteran. However, those who leave the industry with a sour taste in their mouth will probably leave worse off then they would be if they worked somewhere else. Had they been actually paid overtime, they could have possibly built a nest egg that could have allowed them to retire early, or to at least take their time looking for work elsewhere.

While some poor decisions related to processor architecture helped to kill Data General right before the dawn of the 21st century, it is my suspicion that the boom in Silicon Valley may have inspired a brain drain. Nicer weather, a less oppressive corporate culture. For people who wanted more money, there was the change to come in on the ground floor of companies which had the potential to be worth millions and get significant stock options. For those who preferred challenge, they could face whole new challenges when designing new systems and new architectures at the new companies in the Valley.

In summary, the book is a high resolution snapshot of the early days of the computer industry, before the internet started to permeate our lives in subtle ways - computerized tax processing, credit cards, ATM machines, and so on, leading up to the more overt ways it would later find its way in - Bulletin Board Services, E-Mail, and finally, proper web pages. People interested in the history of the computer industry will certainly find this fascinating. People who don't care about the history of computing can still find something in the profiles of the people in this project, and how the project's process slowly wears them all down.(less)

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Sep 24, 2012 Marks54 rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read this book when I was starting grad school. It is an extraordinary story of an innovative team that developed a new 16 bit minicomputer at Data General, who was in competition with DEC and IBM at the time. The story is especially good for its examination of an innovative work team and is just as relevant today as it was then. The only problem, however, is that it is focused on companies that are no longer as relevant in the computer business (DEC and Data General) and on a product that has...more

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Aug 18, 2010 Bonnie Huval rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Among computer people, this is regarded as a classic. It's the detailed story of the creation of a new model of minicomputer by a group inside Data General Corporation. This project occurred in the era when minicomputers were bursting onto the scene. Until then, if you couldn't afford an expensive mainframe, you could only have some limited access to computing by buying some access from a company that did have a mainframe. Minicomputers brought the computer age to ordinary businesses (as distinc...more

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Sep 30, 2011 John rated it 2 of 5 stars

It’s weird to read a book about cutting edge computers built in 1979. they seem so blunt that they could not cut anything today. I tried hard to keep the changing times in mind while reading this book, after all, it is a Pulitzer prize winner. But the fact that times have changed influenced what I thought of it.

The book looks at how a group of engineers designs a radically new computer. It is a peek into computer geek culture that, when written, I am sure was known to very few. However, that ge...more

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Aug 11, 2009 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This is probably the best non-fiction book I have ever read (maybe that's because it won the Pulitzer Prize). The book's title is derived not from the fact that machines have souls but rather that the human energy behind their creation is left behind as part of it.
I read the book in the Mid-80's when I was working as an advanced technology engineering Program Manager. It was given to me as part of an MBA course I was taking. It hit home in so many ways. The book follows the genesis of the develo...more

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May 14, 2010 Tatiana rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction

I read this back when it was current, and I was programming at the time on a Data General MV6000, so it was really fascinating to me how that series was made. I enjoyed the book immensely, and found it a fun read, a page turner. It was nice that Tracy seemed to learn enough about the whole process, the technology and the project, that he really understood what was going on. I think a lot of journalist types wouldn't have managed that. They would have made a lot of vague statements in their books...more

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Mar 13, 2010 Veronica rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone interested in the history of the IT industry

Shelves: mooched, non-fiction

I've been meaning to read this book for literally decades, ever since I first got involved in IT in the mid-1980s. I finally mooched a copy. Maybe it's too late to read it, since it's really history now rather than current affairs. It's still an interesting read though; you don't have to know anythong about computers to read it, because it's about the people in the team that built Data General's first 32-bit computer, using the latest techniques available at that time. They were passionate about...more

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Apr 16, 2013 Eric Andresen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Published in 1981 I remember reading this book when it became available as a "New Release" at the Library. It was no question the first tech history book I read. I was 13 years old and the home computer industry was four. This is one of those rare few books a person reads in their lifetime that shapes them for life.

Tracee Kidder is an expert writer and he follows an engineering group as they build a new generation computer ( a mini computer smaller than a mainframe but bigger than a micro-compu...more

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Feb 03, 2013 Topherjaynes rated it 4 of 5 stars

My second book of Kidder's and enjoyed it as much as 'House." In a strange way "The Soul of a New Machine" feels like a technical sequel to 'House." In both Kidder focuses on craft, and follows the narratives of people building something and really pouring themselves into it.

You don't have to be technical to enjoy "The Soul of a New Machine." Kidder is able to convey the audacity and scale of building a 32-bit computer from the ground up. If you are technical I think you'll even be more impresse...more

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Feb 18, 2011 Zachary rated it 4 of 5 stars

"If you say you're going to do it in a year and you don't take it seriously, it'll take you three years. The game of crazy scheduling is in the category of games you play on yourself, in order to get yourself to move."

"It's funny," Rasala said. "I feel comfortable talking in nanoseconds. I sit at one of these analyzes and nanoseconds are wide. I mean, you can see them go by. 'Jesus', I say, 'that signal takes twelve seconds to go from here to there.' Those are real big things to me when I'm buil...more

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Jun 28, 2009 Thomas Litchford rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This book is a classic. If you're interested in the history of the computer business, you'll really enjoy it.
Kidder follows a team of engineers at Data General as they design, build, and debug a new machine for the company. At the time (late 1970s), the biggest deal in computer tech was the mini computer. This was the stepping stone from the large IBM-style mainframes to the Apple and IBM personal computers that came after.
The book profiles Tom West and several members of his team as they compet...more

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Dec 10, 2011 James Williams rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Somehow, I was under the impression that this book was about the creation of Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX. So imagine my surprise when I started reading it and the author kept talking about some company called "Data General" which I'd never heard of before. (An interesting data point: the Wikipedia article on the computer developed in this book, the Data General Eclipse MV/8000, is a good order of magnitude shorter than the one on the VAX. But Data General survived as an independent compa...more Somehow, I was under the impression that this book was about the creation of Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX. So imagine my surprise when I started reading it and the author kept talking about some company called "Data General" which I'd never heard of before. (An interesting data point: the Wikipedia article on the computer developed in this book, the Data General Eclipse MV/8000, is a good order of magnitude shorter than the one on the VAX. But Data General survived as an independent company for a good year longer than DEC. I'm not sure what to make of this.)

So this book went smashing my expectations right from the start: it was about a computer I'd never heard of before made by a company I'd never heard of before and it was still fully engrossing. It turns out that this isn't really the story of a specific computer made at a specific company by a specific team; instead, it's the story of a Any Given Team of Computer Guys working to build Any Given Project. That they were working on crafting a CPU out of multiple wire-wrapped boards (which is just weird) is almost incidental.

It's incidental because the technical aspects of the story seem to merely add charm. "He turned back to plug a logic analyzer into Gollum." connects paragraphs to each other, but the real meat of the book is in describing the characters and personalities of each of the team members (particularly the main personality, Tom West who died earlier this year) and how each of them coped with the demanding schedules that such projects tend to demand.

This book is a fascinating bit of history (I've never knowingly used a computer without a microprocessor). It's an engaging and engrossing look at what it means to build a high-tech product these days (the beards are a little shorter these days, but everything else sounds about right). It's a good read. They don't hand Pulitzers out to just anyone, after all.

Ultimately, any dissatisfaction I find in this book comes from my own biases. I'm a software guy and I find it much easier to relate to people working on software projects. So I probably tend to prefer something like Zachary Pascal's Showstopper! which is the same sort of project history for Microsoft's Windows NT.

However, I can't help but compare this to a book I read last year, The Race for a New Game Machine by David Shippy. This newer book was simply awful. My holding it up to The Soul of a New Machine really serves to show just how good Soul is. (less)

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Feb 24, 2012 Craig Cecil rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: computers, favorites

A non-fiction novel about a company (Data General) building a computer in the early 1980s. How could that be entertaining? Well, it won a Pulitzer Prize, so that might pique our interest a little. Ah, now I see. It's more about the people building the computer than the computer and the computer industry. The interaction, the relationships, the stress, striving for a goal, working as a team. Tension. Failure. Then Success (or is it?). Any book that you can still vividly remember fifteen years aft...more

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May 10, 2013 M. L. Wilson rated it 2 of 5 stars

I suppose I'll owe this to the fact that I struggled to get past the antiquated machinery and technology. The book seemed to drag for me and while I wanted to like the story, I struggled all the way through.

There was much for me to identify with as I was working on the periphery of the tech industry at the same time this book was published (I worked for a PC board manufacturer).

As a peek into the early days of the computer revolution, it is an informative read; as a story, not so much. I know I...more

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Aug 04, 2012 Omar Halabieh rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is a fascinating recount of Data General's effort to bring a new computer to the market. Through the stories we re-live moments of "drama, comedy, and excitement" as an engineering team works day and night in the goal of developing a computer - project code "Eagle". The author focuses on the natural tension that exists between the engineers and their management. Particularly that of a focus on product vs. the market and the race to develop the next computer.

Within this book are numerou...more This book is a fascinating recount of Data General's effort to bring a new computer to the market. Through the stories we re-live moments of "drama, comedy, and excitement" as an engineering team works day and night in the goal of developing a computer - project code "Eagle". The author focuses on the natural tension that exists between the engineers and their management. Particularly that of a focus on product vs. the market and the race to develop the next computer.

Within this book are numerous lessons on technical leadership, management and organizational dynamics. The lead on the effort (Tom) is a strong believer in grass-root effort and had the ability to build a team, rally them toward a common cause and lead them to success.

As mentioned on the cover: "What has changed little, however, is computer culture: the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the mystique of programmers, the entrepreneurial bravado that has caused so many start-up companies to win big (or crash and burn), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. By tracing computer culture to its roots, by exploring the "soul" of the "machine" that has revolutionized the world, Kidder succeeds as no other writer has done in capturing the essential of the computer age."

A fun classic read with numerous applicable lessons!

Below are two excerpts that I found particularly relevant:

1- "Software compatibility is a marvelous thing. That was the essential lesson West took away from his long talks with his friend in Marketing. You didn't want to make a machine that wasn't compatible, not if you could avoid it. Old customers would feel that since they'd need to buy and create all new software anyways, they might as well look at what other companies had to offer; they'd be likely to undertake the dreaded "market survey"."

2- "Adopting a remote, managerial point of view, you could say that the Eagle project was a case where a local system of management worked as it should: competition for resources creating within a team inside a company an entrepreneurial spirit, which was channeled in the right direction by constraints sent down from the tip. But it seems more accurate to say that a group of engineers got excited about building a computer. Whether it arose by corporate bungling or by design, the opportunity had to be grasped. In this sense, the initiative belonged entirely to West and the members of his team. What's more, they did the work, both with uncommon spirit and for reasons that, in a most frankly commercial setting, seemed remarkably pure."(less)

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Apr 18, 2012 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction, tfpl-book-club

If I hadn't had to read this for a book discussion, I probably wouldn't have made it past the first chapter (which was definitely a slog). But once Kidder got into the meat of his story and focused on the personalities behind the development of the next big thing, the book worked.

Granted, I still skimmed over much of the technical information, but I could appreciate how Kidder's creative, journalistic voice brought to life the drive to create this machine. I can see why professors still use it...more

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Sep 07, 2009 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars

I have an old paperback copy of this - read many times before.

Having just completed a fourth project management class, I'm trying to see the intersection of that discipline with what is described in this book.

There is more detail about how computers work in this book than most people understand now with computers that are far far more complex (or so it seems to me). I don't think anything like this could be written now. Amusingly, when done reading the book, you have no idea what the computer th...more

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Mar 30, 2013 Neven rated it 3 of 5 stars

I really expected to love this book when it opened with an intriguing, excitingly written little anecdote. Unfortunately, what followed never reached the allegorical or dramatic heights of those first few pages.

The Soul of a New Machine is an account of the engineering of a minicomputer in the early 80s. It follows a smallish team, and along the way, attempts to explain the pertinent technology and make grander points about the industry and computers in general. It never quite aces any of these...more

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