Books about the history of computing#

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• A History of Modern Computing

• A New History of Modern Computing

• A People’s History of Computing in the United States

• A Quarter Century of UNIX

• Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date

• Close to the Machine

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

• Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Codebreaking Computers

• Computer: A History of the Information Machine

• Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age

• Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer

• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

• How the Internet Happened

• In the Beginning was the Command Line

• In the Plex

• Masters of Doom

• Show-Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

• The Art of Computer Programming

• The Computer and the Brain

• The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

• The Dream Machine. It’s billed as a biography of J. C. R. Licklider but it’s really a history of why time-sharing was revolutionary and ARPANET (which was obviously revolutionary).

• The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Plato System and the Dawn of Cyberculture

• The Fugitive Game

• The Road Ahead

• The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

• The Soul of a New Machine

• Underground: Hacking, madness, and obsession on the electronic frontier

• What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

• Where Wizards Stay Up Late