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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,593 ratings — published 1984
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,550 ratings — published 1981
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,495 ratings — published 2000
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,053 ratings — published 2011
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,943 ratings — published 1996
The Story of Commodore: A Company on the Edge (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 966 ratings — published 2005
Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,356 ratings — published 1984
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,275 ratings — published 2003
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,651 ratings — published 2001
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 — 16,170 ratings — published 1989
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,369,060 ratings — published 2011
UNIX: A History and a Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,182 ratings — published 2019
Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 490 ratings — published 1999
Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,330 ratings — published 1994
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 — 2,424 ratings — published 2004
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,728 ratings — published 2012
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)
by (shelved 11 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 823 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 3.90 — 886 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 4.21 — 8,985 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 — 30,003 ratings — published 2011
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company – A Biography from Unprecedented Archives of the Digital Age Founders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 832 ratings — published 2014
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,579 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 — 921 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 — 1,986 ratings — published 1992
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,011 ratings — published 1992
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,923 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 4.15 — 351 ratings — published 2017
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,207 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 — 17,515 ratings — published 2006
A History of Modern Computing, second edition (History of Computing)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 190 ratings — published 1998
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 — 4,327 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 — 1,789 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 — 8,009 ratings — published 2010
Commodore: The Amiga Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 150 ratings — published 2017
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,114 ratings — published 1999
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,668 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 — 1,286 ratings — published 1993
The Making of Prince of Persia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,957 ratings — published 2011
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 3.75 — 2,440 ratings — published 2019
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,815 ratings — published 2017
Game Engine Black Book: Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 400 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 — 2,899 ratings — published 2017
Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 250 ratings — published 1996
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.57 — 348 ratings — published 2010
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,161 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 — 1,586 ratings — published 1993
A New History of Modern Computing (History of Computing)
by (shelved 5 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 29 ratings — published
The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as computer-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 214 ratings — published 1985
Commodore: The Final Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as computer-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 83 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 — 554 ratings — published 1992
“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
