I can recommend to get a copy of * Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution, by Lamont Wood. * The Soul of A New

I can recommend to get a copy of * Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution, by Lamont Wood. * The Soul of A New Machine, by Tracy Kidder. * Books by George Dyson (son of ...): Darwin Among the Machines, Turing's Cathedral. (unrelated, but also give Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship a go) * The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, by Leslie Berlin. * Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA * Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing, by Thierry Bardini.