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Computer History Books
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,507 ratings — published 1984
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,322 ratings — published 1981
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,433 ratings — published 2000
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,392 ratings — published 2011
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,874 ratings — published 1996
The Story of Commodore: A Company on the Edge (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 959 ratings — published 2005
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,863 ratings — published 2003
Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,338 ratings — published 1984
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 15,456 ratings — published 1989
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,570 ratings — published 2001
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,340,982 ratings — published 2011
Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,410 ratings — published 2004
UNIX: A History and a Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,122 ratings — published 2019
Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 489 ratings — published 1999
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 807 ratings — published 2009
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 879 ratings — published 1999
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,641 ratings — published 2012
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,949 ratings — published 2011
Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,320 ratings — published 1994
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,683 ratings — published 2012
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 27,093 ratings — published 2011
The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 892 ratings — published 1984
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,969 ratings — published 1992
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 822 ratings — published 2014
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,975 ratings — published 1992
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,731 ratings — published 2001
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 345 ratings — published 2017
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,943 ratings — published 2011
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,420 ratings — published 2006
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,282 ratings — published 1999
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,755 ratings — published 2013
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,953 ratings — published 2010
Commodore: The Amiga Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 148 ratings — published 2017
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,076 ratings — published 1999
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,408 ratings — published 1999
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,272 ratings — published 1993
The Making of Prince of Persia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,853 ratings — published 2011
A History of Modern Computing, second edition (History of Computing)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 188 ratings — published 1998
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,338 ratings — published 2019
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,829 ratings — published 2017
Game Engine Black Book: Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 392 ratings — published 2018
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,806 ratings — published 2017
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,925 ratings — published 1975
Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,568 ratings — published 1993
The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 191 ratings — published 1985
Commodore: The Final Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 80 ratings — published 2019
Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 553 ratings — published 1992
Game Engine Black Book, Wolfenstein 3D (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 624 ratings — published 2017
Infinite Loop: How Apple, the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 304 ratings — published 1999
Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 223 ratings — published 1988
“We invented a whole new class of computer programming languages known as list processing languages. The basic idea is that whenever a piece of information is stored in memory, additional information should be stored with it telling where to find the next associated piece of information.”
― Models of My Life
― Models of My Life
“Diffie was one of a legion of bright young men who, were it not for the Vietnam War, would probably not have considered the idea of military-funded basic research. But it seemed like a reasonable compromise when facing the equally dismal alternatives of being shipped to Indochina, fleeing to Canada, or going to jail.”
― What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
― What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
