The Soul Of A New Machine
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the high-stakes world of late 1970s Silicon Valley, a war is being fought not on battlefields but in fluorescent-lit laboratories, where brilliant, obsessive engineers race against time to birth a machine that could change the world. The Soul of a New Machine chronicles the gripping, true story of Data General's frantic quest to design and build a revolutionary 32-bit minicomputer, capturing the human drama, the bruising corporate politics, and the sheer intellectual ferocity that powered one of technology's most pivotal moments. Tracy Kidder immerses the reader in the daily grind and euphoric breakthroughs of a team of engineers pushed to their absolute limits, rendering the arcane world of computer architecture with a novelist's eye for tension and character. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this landmark work of narrative non-fiction stands as one of the most celebrated accounts of innovation ever written. Kidder's prose is precise yet deeply human, illuminating the obsession, sacrifice, and tribal loyalty that bind a team together in pursuit of something greater than themselves. Decades after its first publication, The Soul of a New Machine remains an urgent and eerily prescient portrait of the technological ambition that continues to shape our world — leaving the reader to wonder what, exactly, is the cost of building the future.
Author: Tracy Kidder
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the high-stakes world of late 1970s Silicon Valley, a war is being fought not on battlefields but in fluorescent-lit laboratories, where brilliant, obsessive engineers race against time to birth a machine that could change the world. The Soul of a New Machine chronicles the gripping, true story of Data General's frantic quest to design and build a revolutionary 32-bit minicomputer, capturing the human drama, the bruising corporate politics, and the sheer intellectual ferocity that powered one of technology's most pivotal moments. Tracy Kidder immerses the reader in the daily grind and euphoric breakthroughs of a team of engineers pushed to their absolute limits, rendering the arcane world of computer architecture with a novelist's eye for tension and character. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this landmark work of narrative non-fiction stands as one of the most celebrated accounts of innovation ever written. Kidder's prose is precise yet deeply human, illuminating the obsession, sacrifice, and tribal loyalty that bind a team together in pursuit of something greater than themselves. Decades after its first publication, The Soul of a New Machine remains an urgent and eerily prescient portrait of the technological ambition that continues to shape our world — leaving the reader to wonder what, exactly, is the cost of building the future.