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Ask HN: What are you favourite books/podcasts/media on the history of computing?

by vaughnegut on 1/7/22, 2:33 PM with 5 comments

• by RNeff on 1/7/22, 6:08 PM

  Try "Computing: a Concise History" by Paul Ceruzzi is inexpensive.

  Best bet is visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

  There is "A New History of Modern Computing" that came out last year by Ceruzzi and Thomas Haight (I have not read it).

• by kandruszkow on 1/10/22, 11:27 AM

  Some good books on the topic are "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder or "The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit" by Sherry Turkle. As for the podcast, I’ve heard good things on "The Bits from Bytes History of Computing Podcast" by Richard Haynes.

• by jonjacky on 1/7/22, 6:11 PM

  Many many suggestions two years ago in this Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692281

• by Whut on 1/7/22, 3:17 PM

  Soul of a New Machine is great.