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The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,510 ratings — published 1981
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,578 ratings — published 1984
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,880 ratings — published 2017
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,483 ratings — published 2000
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,636 ratings — published 2001
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,719 ratings — published 2012
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,934 ratings — published 1996
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,364,660 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 5 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,490 ratings — published 2006
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,930 ratings — published 2011
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,920 ratings — published 2012
UNIX: A History and a Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,170 ratings — published 2019
Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,329 ratings — published 1994
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,109 ratings — published 1999
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,597 ratings — published 2004
Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 250 ratings — published 1996
The Story of Commodore: A Company on the Edge (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 967 ratings — published 2005
A History of Modern Computing, second edition (History of Computing)
by (shelved 4 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 189 ratings — published 1998
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,180 ratings — published 2008
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 42,120 ratings — published 2022
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,278 ratings — published 2021
Permanent Record (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 58,208 ratings — published 2019
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,007 ratings — published 1992
Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,424 ratings — published 2004
A Quarter Century of Unix (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 92 ratings — published 1994
The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 173 ratings — published 1997
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,197 ratings — published 2003
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,152 ratings — published 2011
Alan Turing: The Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,996 ratings — published 1983
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,625 ratings — published 1999
Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain (History of Computing)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 20 ratings — published 2023
Replay: The History of Video Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,507 ratings — published 2010
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 324 ratings — published 2011
Doom Guy: Life in First Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,463 ratings — published 2023
LaserWriter II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,821 ratings — published 2021
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 507 ratings — published 2000
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 350 ratings — published 2017
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,153 ratings — published 2005
Minitel: Welcome to the Internet (Platform Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 30 ratings — published
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.27 — 1,728 ratings — published 2013
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 820 ratings — published 2009
Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 489 ratings — published 1999
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,522 ratings — published 1967
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 29,989 ratings — published 2011
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,878 ratings — published 2001
Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 443 ratings — published 2009
Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,353 ratings — published 1984
Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 562 ratings — published 2000
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,321 ratings — published 1999
The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as computing-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 62 ratings — published 2000
