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Can you share some of the titles about computing in the 50-70s?
by dfc 2y ago
Can you share some of the titles about computing in the 50-70s?
- ecliptik 2y agoI've been reading The Innovators[1], which includes early computing history, just finished the section on The Mother of all Demos yesterday coincidentally. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovators_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovators_(book)
- jntun 2y agoOf course! What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry [2005] Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age [2000] Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date [1996] Palo Alto [2023] (This is more for capturing the full scope of San Francisco / Palo Alto since the founding of California as a state) Those are some off the top of my head right now being away from my library, probably also the most impactful to me in no specific order.
- pmcjones 2y agoThe Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop Computing in the Middle Ages by Severo Ornstein - https://worrydream.com/refs/Ornstein_2002_-_Computing_in_the_Middle_Ages.pdf https://worrydream.com/refs/Ornstein_2002_-_Computing_in_the...