The soul of a new machine

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Tracy Kidder: The soul of a new machine (1983, Penguin)

254 pages

English language

Published Dec. 24, 1983 by Penguin.

ISBN:
978-0-14-006249-6
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"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000. The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Non-fiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Subjects

  • Data General Corporation minicomputers

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