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* "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems " https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ibms-360-and-early-370-system...
* "Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35953464-broad-band
* "Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1427580.Fire_in_the_Vall...
https://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/...
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution ~ Steven Levy The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
- Turings’s Cathedral
- The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
- A Mind at Play
- The Victorian Internet
- Dawn of the New Everything
Plus two that I haven’t read but hear amazing things:
- Mindstorms
- Dream Machine
Agree with all posted before. Adding Clifford Stoll, Cuckoo's Egg; white it's not so much a history of computing as a personal history of a geek astronomer catching a hacker, it represents a lot of early computing culture, and I enjoyed it a lot.
"Racing the Beam", on the early Atari; notable for nailing both the techological and sociological sides of the games it studies.
He did Steve jobs bio, Ben Franklin bio, Leonardo davinchi bio, but this is my favorite since it's basically 30 biographies in one.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-s...
A great book on history of the information economy over the periods of Radio, Telephone, and cable TV that has a lot to say about how the longer cycles of technology play out.