The floor was torn up a shallow trench filled with fat power cables traversed it. One holiday morning in 1978, Tom West traveled to a city that was situated, he would later say guardedly, "somewhere in America." He entered a building as though he belonged there, strolled down a hallway, and let himself quietly into a windowless room. The Atlantic published two lengthy excerpts of the book back in 1981 - Flying Upside Down and The Ultimate Toy - but if those catch your fancy at all, I'd recommend skipping them and just read the book. Kidder won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award for this book. The story follows an engineering team at Data General as they attempt to design and build an entirely new minicomputer in the late 1970s. Inspired by Halt and Catch Fire, I'm re-reading Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine.
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