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reviewed The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder: The Soul of a New Machine (Hardcover, 1981, Little, Brown) 4 stars

"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and …

The Soul of an (Not So) New Machine

5 stars

Tracy Kidder recounts the uber-enjoyable events of an engineering team racing to build a microcomputer, making it feel like you're the geeked intern spectating at all the engineers in wonder and delight. The personalities, the hardware, the business, the goofs and the gaffes pull you in and never really lets go. Now, forty years later, the book is old and the technology is practically archaic, however, nothing seems to have really changed.