I have mixed feelings about the book. When the author writes about the individuals involved in the creation of the first computers, their personalities, their eccentricities, the petty struggles among academic departments (ex. the episode of whole stole the sugar for the tea) the book is very en...
The job of guarding the turnstile at the entrance to the library must dull one’s attention over the years, and I discovered in 1967 that by melting into the crowd of students flooding into the library at 8:30 in the morning, it was usually possible to sneak in. Firestone’s fifty-five miles of boo...