Tim Shoppa wrote:
>
> > What do you think of this bibliography? Have I missed any important book
> > on the subject? Please help me in making this a useful refence for
> > everybody to use, if you care. Thank you
> >
> > - An introduction to microcomputers (vol.0) by Adam Osborne, self
> > published in 1977
>
> An excellent book - but why do you leave out the other more
> technical books by Osborne? Some of them go into great depth
> in comparing some of the more bizarre early microcomputer chips
> with very similar minis of the time.
Because as it is written in the title this is a Historic HOME Computers
bibliography.
>
> And there's one obvious book missing from your list: _The Soul
> of a New Machine_, by Tracy Kidder. Maybe the reason it's missing
> is because your list is so obviously biased towards tiny home
> computers, but anyone who's interested in the culture of a
> typical minicomputer manufacturer would love Kidder's book.
Same answer as above. Perhaps someone could do another one for minis.
enrico
>
> Tim. (shoppa_at_triumf.ca)
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