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Article #38863 (38954 is last):
From: wilson@inf.ufrgs.br (Wilson Roberto Afonso)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: alt.folklore.computers FAQ - Part 03
Date: Tue Mar 9 09:52:27 1993
Archive-name: afc-faq-3
Last-modified: 04-Mar-1993
This is the alt.folklore.computers list of Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ). It is maintained by Wilson Afonso (wilson@inf.ufrgs.br) All
contributions and corrections are welcome, but I'm ultimately
responsible for what appears here. Contributors are acknowledged, if
possible.
This is a three-part file. The first part contains mostly generic questions.
The second is a small hitory of computers, and the third is a list of books
which are more or less related to computer folklore.
File 1:
I - Introduction
II - Generic questions
III - General folklore
IV - Origins
V - Firsts
VI - Jokes
VII - Net Resources
VIII- Acknowledgement
IX - Things I am looking for
File 2:
X - A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952)
File 3 (this file):
XI - List of computer-folklore related books
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XI - List of computer-folklore related books
This is a list of computer-folklore related books. I have no way to keep
it up to date, since I am far from USA, where most of the books are
released. This list dates from Sept. 1st, 1992.
-----------------8<-----------------8<---------------8<-------------8<--------
: Computer History/Biography/NonFiction Book List
: <version 2.0>
: September 1, 1992
A good source for the following books is supposedly the Boston Computer
Museum Catalog. Call them at 617.426.2800 and ask for one.
=============================================================================
Accidental Empires
How the boys of Silicon Valley make their millons, battle foreign
competition, and still can't get a date.
Robert X. Cringely
324p
Reading MA, Addison-Wesley, c1992
0-201-57032-7
Accidental Millionaire
The rise and fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer
Lee Butcher
224p, ill
New York, Paragon House, c1988
0-913729-79-5
Ainsi naquit l'informatique (The Computer Comes of Age)
The people, the hardware, and the software
Rene Moreau, Translated by J. Howlett
227p, ill
Cambridge MA, MIT Press, c1984
0-262-13194-3
Big Blue
IBM's use and abuse of Power
Richard Thomas DeLamarter
393p
New York, Dodd Mead, c1986
0-396-08515-6
Bit by Bit
An Illustrated History of Computers
Stan Augarten
324p, ill
New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1984
0-89919-268-8 (hard)
0-89919-302-1 (soft)
Blue Magic
The people, power, and politics behind the IBM personal computer
James Chposky and Ted Leonsis
228p
New York, Facts on File, c1988
0-8160-1391-8
Breakthrough to the Computer Age
[???]
Harry Wulforst
185p, ill
New York, Scribner, c1982
0-684-17499-5
The Computer Entrepeneurs
Who's making it big and how in America's upstart industry
Robert Levering, Michael Katz, Milton Moskowitz
481p, ill
New York, New American Library, c1984
0-453-00477-6
The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann
[???]
Herman H. Goldstine
378p, ill
Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1972
0-691-08104-2
Computer Lib; Dream Machines
[texts bound together back-to-back and inverted]
Ted Nelson
178p 153p, ill
Redmond, WA, Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, 1987
0-914845-49-7
A Computer Perspective
Background to the computer age
by the office of Charles & Ray Eames
174p, ill
Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1990
0-674-15626-9
The Computer Pioneers
The making of the modern computer
David Ritchie
238p, ill
New York, Simon&Schuster, c1986
0-671-52397-X
The Cuckoo's Egg
Tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage
Clifford Stoll
326p
New York, Doubleday, c1989
0-385-24946-2
Cyberpunk
Outlaws and hackers on the computer frontier
Katie Hafner and John Markoff
368p
New York, Simon&Schuster, c1991
0-671-68322-5
The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer
[???]
Edward Yourdon
352p, ill
Englewood Cliffs NJ, Yourdon Press, c1992
0-13-203670-3
The Devouring Fungus
Tales of the computer age
Karla Jennings
237p, ill
New York, W.W.Norton, c1990
0-393-02897-6
Early British Computers
The story of vintage computers and the people who built them
Simon Lavington
139p, ill
Bedford MA, Digital Press, c1980
0-932376-08-8
Electronic Computers
A Historical Survey
Saul Rosen
Computing Surveys v1#1, March 1969
Fire in the Valley
The making of the personal computer
Paul Freiberger
288p, ill
Berkeley CA, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, c1984
???
>From Dits to Bits
A personal history of the electronic computer
Herman Lukoff
219p, ill
Portland OR, Robotic Press, c1979
0-89661-002-0
Fumbling the Future
How Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer
Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander
???p
New York, Quill, 1990
0-688-09511-9
Hackers
Heroes of the computer revolution
Steven Levy
458p
Garden City NY, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984
0-385-19195-2
Hard Drive
Bill Gates and the making of Microsoft empire
James Wallace and Jim Erickson
426p, ill
New York, Wiley, c1992
0-471-56886-4
The Media Lab
Inventing the Future at MIT
Stewert Brand
285p, ill
New York, Penguin Books, 1988
0-14-009701-5
The Micro Millenium
[???]
Christopher Evans
255p
New York, Viking Press, 1980
0-670-47400-2
The New Alchemists
Silicon Valley and the microelectronics revolution
Dirk Hanson
364p
Boston, Little Brown, c1982
0-316-34342-0
Odyssey
Pepsi to Apple - A journey of adventure, ideas, and the future
John Sculley with John A. Byrne
450p, ill
New York, Harper&Row, c1987
0-06-015780-1
The Origins of Digital Comptuers
Selected Papers
Brian Randell, ed.
580p, ill
New York, Springer-Verlag, 1982
0-387-11319-3
Portraits in Silicon
[???]
Robert Slater
374p, ill
Cambridge MA, MIT Press, c1987
0-262-19262-4
Programmers at Work
Interviews with 19 programmers that shaped the computer industry
Susan M. Lammers
391p, ill
Redmond WA, Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, 1989
1-55615-211-6
The Soul of a New Machine
[data general]
Tracy Kidder
293p
Boston, Little Brown, c1981
0-316-49170-5
Sunburst
The Ascent of Sun Microsystems
Mark Hall and John Barry
297p
Chicago, Contemporary Books, c1990
0-8092-4368-7
West of Eden
The end of innocence at Apple Computer
Frank Rose
356p
New York, Penguin Books, c1989
0-14-009372-9
--
Wilson Roberto Afonso | Instituto de Informatica - UFRGS
wilson@inf.ufrgs.br | Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil
"..If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time
serving it...." The Forbidden Tower, Marion Zimmer Bradle