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The Soul Of A New Machine Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Posted on June 3, 2011 by gilm. It is the newsroom of the Newark Star Ledger. The book was written by the journalist Tracy Kidder and won a Pulitzer Prize. In high school I thought I wanted to be a computer programmer, so I took the first computer classes offered at my school. Nostalgia is my middle name, and for the past years I've been looking for the reason behind this claim: everything used to be much better. Tracy Kidder got a preview of this world in the late 1970s when he observed the engineers of Data General design and build a new 32-bit minicomputer in just one year. I was cleaning up the About page and came across Tracy Kidder's name and the phrase “bag on the side.” The reference is to Kidder's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Soul of a New Machine. The Soul of a New Machine is an account of the project which developed Data General's Eclipse/MV8000 minicomputer. The title of this series references Tracy Kidder's famous novel "The Soul Of A New Machine", detailing how Data General brought an entirely new minicomputer to market in the early days of computing. Growing up, we had a colour tv at home. As fast, efficient, lean machine designed for news gathering and information processing.