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| Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit superminicomputer. A compelling account of individual sacrifice and human ingenuity, The Soul of a New Machine endures as the classic chronicle of the computer age and the masterminds behind its technological advances. "A superb book," said Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. "All the incredible complexity and chaos and exploitation and loneliness and strange, half-mad beauty of this field are honestly and correctly drawn." The Washington Post Book World said, "Kidder has created compelling entertainment. He offers a fast, painless, enjoyable means to an initial understanding of computers, allowing us to understand the complexity of machines we could only marvel at before, and to appreciate the sk |
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Key Information
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| Awards: |
1982 National Book Award, 1982 Pulitzer Prize |
| Authors: |
Tracy Kidder |
| Nonfiction Subcategory: |
Computer Engineering |
| Nonfiction Category: |
Computers |
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"A superb book...All the incredible complexity and chaos and exploitation and loveliness and strange, half-mad beauty of this field are honestly and correctly drawn here.", "Tracy Kidder can turn the most unlikely story into riveting drama.", New York Times Book Review: "Kidder has endowed the tale with such pace, texture, and poetic implication that he has elevated it to a high level of narrative art....Splendid.", Washington Post Book World: "A true-life adventure." |
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Book Editions
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- Hardcover
- Reprint
- 384
- July 01, 1997
- Modern Library
- 7.75"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1"(d), 0.85 lbs.
- 9780679602613
, - Paperback
- June 01, 2000
- Back Bay Books
- 8.75"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1"(d), 0.7 lbs.
- 9780316491976
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