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If you haven't read it yet try "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy. He covers a big chunk of computing history from the hardware hackers at MIT to the game development revolution that spawned from micro computers.

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Yes, i have :-). It was also very interesting to see the "evolution" of Brøderbund from its early stages in Levy's book to a big slow moving company in Jordan Mechner's Karateka and Prince of Persia diaries (and i'd be very interested to read about the development of The Last Express, which was also developed when Brøderbund collapsed).

It is very interesting to piece together these history pieces from the various books :-)

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