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Ask HN: Greatest books about the history of computing

12 points kaycebasques | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 16:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source

The Dream Machine is giving me a great appreciation of the time-sharing revolution and ARPANET. What else should I read? Any timeframe or topic is OK, so long as it's strongly related to the history of computing.
1. rfarley04 ◴[20 Nov 24 03:35 UTC] No.42190616[source]▶
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

It's a little zoomed out and more focused on information theory than computers, specifically, but the overlap is significant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_...