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Kidder, Tracy The Soul of a New MacHine Boston Little Brown & Co 1981 4th Printing Hard Cover Very Good Good - 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall DeAngeli, Peter [cover] 293 pp. Spine slightly slanted. DJ has edgewear including a 1" tear and a few tiny tears. Text is clean and unmarked.
"In 1979 Tracy Kidder went underground into the closely guarded research basement of Data General to observe a crack team of computer wizards about to embark on a crash program to design and build a fast new computer: the Eagle Project. The 'Hardy Boys' and the 'Microkids' they called themselves, a bunch of competitive youngsters, most right out of engineering school, about to put together a '32-bit supermini' more powerful and more complicated than any one of them could individually understand, more advanced than anything yet on the market. A lot of people - inside the company and out - were betting that they couldn't do it. One man - their secretive and solitary boss, Tom West - was betting everything that they could." Price: 8.00 USD
