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‘THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE’ by Tracy Kidder


Justin

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Picked up a vintage 1st edition of an old Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a visionary tech titan who manifests the future.

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I highly recommend ‘THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE’ by Tracy Kidder📖👌

It’s a Non-Fiction book, chronicling the development of a 1980s next-gen computer and the engineering team of masterminds behind it

The book partially inspired AMC’s ‘HALT AND CATCH FIRE’ — excellent read!

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The greatest thing about buying vintage books are finding old inscriptions on the inside.

Incredible and beautiful.

I’d love to know who Mike & Katie were, and what happened to them.

And what else did they get for Christmas, 1981? 🤔

Any other vintage book lovers here?

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4 hours ago, RickR said:

I'll look for this one, sounds like a great read. 

 

Absolutely. I would recommend the book to anyone in here with an interest in classic computing. It feels fresh in a way because so much of what we read on the topic are stories about Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc. This is really about a team of engineers trying to pull off the impossible. 

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