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The Soul of a New Machine

By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
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Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder memorably recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the 20th century.

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Very interesting! It's so different hearing how a machine was designed back in the 70s.

Fascinating Description of Designing a Computer

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"But machines don't have souls ..." reads the laconic review from most that hear this title, yet here is a tribute to those enveloped in the pioneering spirit that predates Intel and Microsoft. Here's to the movers and shakers, the true hackers that only those with the deepest spirit of late night adventures in Computer Science will comprehend.

Are machines born, and do they have a soul?

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The value of treating those you manage as people who can ‘change the game’ is revealed through this gripping narrative

Well told and insightful

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