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

4 points by vaughnegut 4y ago ↗ HN

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Whut 4y ago ↗

Soul of a New Machine is great.

vaughnegut 4y ago ↗

I read this last year and it was excellent. I'd recommend it to anyone who has never it before and has an interest.

RNeff 4y ago ↗

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).

jonjacky 4y ago ↗

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

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

kandruszkow 4y ago ↗

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.