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The Soul of A New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
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The Soul of a New Machine is Tracy Kidder’s 1981 work of narrative nonfiction about the creation of a new 32 bit minicomputer at Data General Corporation. Embedded with the engineers behind the secretive Eagle project, later released as the Eclipse MV 8000, Kidder turns a technical development effort into an examination of work, ambition, hierarchy, and risk. The book follows a team operating under severe competitive pressure as it tries to deliver a complex machine on an unusually short schedule. Its subject is not primarily how a computer functions. Instead, it investigates why talented people accept extreme demands, how a project acquires momentum, and how technical choices become inseparable from organizational politics. Kidder, who did not write as an engineer, makes the environment intelligible through close observation of its participants and language. The result is both a record of the late 1970s minicomputer industry and a durable study of the human systems that produce technology.
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- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/0316491977/
#Eagleproject #EclipseMV8000 #minicomputerengineering #timetomarket #intrinsicmotivation #TheSoulofANewMachine
The Soul of a New Machine is Tracy Kidder’s 1981 work of narrative nonfiction about the creation of a new 32 bit minicomputer at Data General Corporation. Embedded with the engineers behind the secretive Eagle project, later released as the Eclipse MV 8000, Kidder turns a technical development effort into an examination of work, ambition, hierarchy, and risk. The book follows a team operating under severe competitive pressure as it tries to deliver a complex machine on an unusually short schedule. Its subject is not primarily how a computer functions. Instead, it investigates why talented people accept extreme demands, how a project acquires momentum, and how technical choices become inseparable from organizational politics. Kidder, who did not write as an engineer, makes the environment intelligible through close observation of its participants and language. The result is both a record of the late 1970s minicomputer industry and a durable study of the human systems that produce technology.
