Thanks for that list - to add to it some lighter, at-the-beach reading as well: 1989, The Cuckoo's Egg (a lot of 80s Unix/Vax anecdotes as well as a great stor

Thanks for that list - to add to it some lighter, at-the-beach reading as well: 1989, The Cuckoo's Egg (a lot of 80s Unix/Vax anecdotes as well as a great story and lots of good-old hippie culture :) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18154.The_Cuckoo_s_Egg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18154.The_Cuckoo_s_Egg 1996, Accidental Empires (a little frivolous but an enjoyable read nonetheless, focuses on beginnings of MS and Apple) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27652.Accidental_Empires http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27652.Accidental_Empires 1992, Game Over (Nintendo and video game history mostly 80s) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/339584.Game_Over_Press_Start_to_Continue http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/339584.Game_Over_Press_St... 2014, Console Wars (Sega and the video game / computer industry of the 80s and early 90s - somewhat of an answer to "Game Over") http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18505802-console-wars http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18505802-console-wars Less people in this book but it's about computer history, right? Fascinating read, I didn't "finish" it yet - still great to dive into the book now and then: 2010, The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7754526-the-apollo-guidance-computer http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7754526-the-apollo-guidan... --- ~OT: The last book really makes me want to see Notch's 0x10c come to live again as you would have been able to program your own fully emulated ship computer in that game, unfortunately it got canceled. I'm hoping some future No Man's Sky mod will be going in that direction! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c#Gameplay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c#Gameplay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Sky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Sky