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Title:
The Soul of a New Machine
Genre:
Computing
History
Computer Science
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Series Order:
0
Type of Book:
Non-Fiction
Number of Pages:
293
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:13:29
Synopsis:
You are about to enter an exotic workplace where daylight never shines, and each second of time has 1,000,000,000 (one billion!) parts. It is the computer laboratory of a fascinating firm whose brilliant engineers sometimes come to work hours early just to be there first, while others burn out and go home in the middle of the day, unable to cope anymore with the wicked pace and pressure. Brazenly competitive is probably the kindest thing their detractors have called them, because there is no denying that this has been one of the most controversial and protitable computer companies in American business - risen from nothing to the ranks of the Fortune 500 in ten tumultuous years.
Welcome to the Data General Corporation of Westborough, Massachusetts. This is The Soul of a New Machine.
Everything you are about to read actually happened. No names have been changed.
Nothing controversial has been left out. In
1979 Tracy Kidder went underground into the closely guarded research basement of Data General to observe a crack team of computer wizards about to embark on a crash program to design and build a fast new computer: the Eagle Project. The
”Hardy Boys”
and the ”Microkids” they
called themselves, a bunch of competitive youngsters, most right out of engineering school, about to put together a ”32-bit supermini” more powerful and more complicated than any one of them could individually understand, more advanced than anything yet on the market. A lot of people - inside the company and out — were betting that they couldn’t do it. One man — their secretive and solitary boss, Tom West — was betting everything that they could.
For weeks and months Kidder watched as they pushed themselves to their physical and intellectual limits and beyond - twelve-hour days, twenty-hour days, all-night shifts, weekends - in an effort to ”maximize the win” by building their machine in record
Welcome to the Data General Corporation of Westborough, Massachusetts. This is The Soul of a New Machine.
Everything you are about to read actually happened. No names have been changed.
Nothing controversial has been left out. In
1979 Tracy Kidder went underground into the closely guarded research basement of Data General to observe a crack team of computer wizards about to embark on a crash program to design and build a fast new computer: the Eagle Project. The
”Hardy Boys”
and the ”Microkids” they
called themselves, a bunch of competitive youngsters, most right out of engineering school, about to put together a ”32-bit supermini” more powerful and more complicated than any one of them could individually understand, more advanced than anything yet on the market. A lot of people - inside the company and out — were betting that they couldn’t do it. One man — their secretive and solitary boss, Tom West — was betting everything that they could.
For weeks and months Kidder watched as they pushed themselves to their physical and intellectual limits and beyond - twelve-hour days, twenty-hour days, all-night shifts, weekends - in an effort to ”maximize the win” by building their machine in record
Author:
Tracy Kidder
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Publisher:
Little, Brown
Barcode:
9780316491709
Number of Copies:
1
Publisher Location:
Boston
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$11.39
Automatic Estimated Date:
2026-04-06
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:13:29
