 | Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.68 Start here! MIT's roots in the revolution, etc.
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 | Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $3.09 An excellent work detailing PARC's rise and fall.
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 | Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders by Jim Carlton
Buy used from: $0.12 A very interesting read on Apple.
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 | Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer (Second Edition) by Paul Freiberger
Buy used from: $16.95 A more recent history.
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 | The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Buy used from: $9.59 How we got here.
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 | Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $1.44 Linus tells us about the birth of Linux.
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 | Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company by Owen W Linzmayer
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $9.98 Another history of Apple, this one through Job's return
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 | Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.93 Excellent collection from one of the Mac designers
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 | The Soul Of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.35 Just before the pc came along
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 | Pirates of Silicon Valley
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $13.99 The Hollywood version of Apple's start
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 | What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer by John Markoff
Buy used from: $1.99 Acclaimed look at the history leading up to the personal computer
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 | Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier by Katie Hafner
Buy used from: $0.01 Some cheese and crackers
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 | WHERE WIZARDS STAY UP LATE: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner
Buy used from: $0.01 One version of the origins of the internet
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 | The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage
Buy used from: $1.33 Almost like an alternate universe, where the internet exists in Morse code
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 | The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine by Tom Standage
Buy used from: $0.01 Chess, anyone?
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 | Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Writing Science) by Thierry Bardini
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $3.50 Where the mouse began
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