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CRINGELEY, ROBERT X. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions (1992). Makes the interesting argument that the founders of Microsoft, Apple, and other companies achieved their success largely by accident.
DEUTSCHMAN, ALAN. The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (2000). Account of Steve Jobs’s career before the iPod; excellent account of the origins of Pixar.
KIDDER, TRACY. The Soul of a New Machine (1981). The prize-winning account of the efforts of computer “whiz kids” at Data General to build a new computer.
LAMMERS, SUSAN. Programmers at Work: Interviews with 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (1989).Personal recollections of Charles Simonyi, Bill Gates, and other software pioneers.
LEVY, STEVEN. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984). Colorful account of the grassroots origins of the personal computer revolution.
LINZMAYER, OWEN W. Apple Confidential 2.0 (2004). Well-researched, highly engaging history of Apple.
SLATER, ROBERT. Portraits in Silicon (1987). Biographical sketches of computer pioneers including Howard Aiken, H. Ross Perot, Ted Hoff, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates.
YOUNG, JEFFREY S., AND WILLIAM L. SIMON. iCon: Steve Jobs, the Second Greatest Second Act in the History of Business (2005). A bit “over the top” on Steve Jobs’s personal life, but abundant information about Jobs and Apple through the advent of the iPod.
BRANDS, H. W. Masters of Enterprise (1999). Focuses on the lives of twenty-five American entrepreneurs including J. P. Morgan and Bill Gates and explores the difference each made in the growth of American business.
CRINGELEY, ROBERT X. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions (1992). Makes the interesting argument that the founders of Microsoft, Apple, and other companies achieved their success largely by accident.
DEUTSCHMAN, ALAN. The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (2000). Account of Steve Jobs’s career before the iPod; excellent account of the origins of Pixar.
KIDDER, TRACY. The Soul of a New Machine (1981). The prize-winning account of the efforts of computer “whiz kids” at Data General to build a new computer.
LAMMERS, SUSAN. Programmers at Work: Interviews with 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (1989).Personal recollections of Charles Simonyi, Bill Gates, and other software pioneers.
LEVY, STEVEN. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984). Colorful account of the grassroots origins of the personal computer revolution.
LINZMAYER, OWEN W. Apple Confidential 2.0 (2004). Well-researched, highly engaging history of Apple.
SLATER, ROBERT. Portraits in Silicon (1987). Biographical sketches of computer pioneers including Howard Aiken, H. Ross Perot, Ted Hoff, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates.
YOUNG, JEFFREY S., AND WILLIAM L. SIMON. iCon: Steve Jobs, the Second Greatest Second Act in the History of Business (2005). A bit “over the top” on Steve Jobs’s personal life, but abundant information about Jobs and Apple through the advent of the iPod.