THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE, Tracy Kidder

Title: The Soul of A New Machine

Writer: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Penguin Books
Edition: 1982
Pages: 254
Dimension: 18x 11x 1,5cm
Cover: Softcover
Language: English
Category: For Sale
Price: Rp.
Call No.: 004/Kid/S/C.1
Status: Available

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The massively bestselling account

of the titanic struggle to dominate a machine ...

The making of the 32-bit mini komputer, eagle, was a colossus of an enterprise, demanding the waking hours and sleeping thoughts of a brilliant and aggresive team of young computer wizards who worked for the multi-million-dollar American company, Data General.

They were given one year: day-by-day, wire-by-wire, the 'microkids' traced and retraced Eagle's labyrinthine arteries, fought back at its tantrums and wooed its obedience. It forced them to the limits of their endurance.

'Kidder has written with a reporter's eye, a novelist's heart and a technician's understanding...brilliant, concise and original'-

PLAYBOY

'All the incredible complexity and chaos and exploitation and loneliness and strange,

half-mad beaty of this field'-

ROBERT PIRSIG, AUTHOR OF ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE

'You are going to have a marvellous time reading Tracy Kidder's book...

A double barreled success'-

HARRY HARRISON IN THE NEW SCIENTIST

Winner of the

1982 Pulitzer Prize

Soon to be a major film