> The OP's complaint was that most history stops at Turing and everything in Hackers is about MIT post-Turing. Before Turing, it was a handful of people obsess

> The OP's complaint was that most history stops at Turing and everything in Hackers is about MIT post-Turing. Before Turing, it was a handful of people obsessed with computing things efficiently. That history is difficult to extract from the hardware pre-Turing.