For the uninitiated, Brian Kernighan also wrote a book titled "Unix: A History and a Memoir" published in 2019. Would recommend.
Goodreads Link - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53011383-unix
Goodreads Link - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53011383-unix
Katie Hafner "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of The Internet"
I recommended this book before here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692281
https://www.informit.com/store/design-and-implementation-of-...
Marshall Kirk McKusick has done some talks on the subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEr6dT-4uQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwbqBdghh6E
https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovatio...
Search for the many HN comments about this 2013 book:
https://www.google.com/search?q=idea+factory+site%3Anews.yco...
Michael A. Hiltzik's Dealers of Lightning about the heyday of computing research at Xerox PARC isn't universally praised (IIRC it's more or less Bob Metcalfe's version of the story) but it is very readable.
Bob Johnstone's We Were Burning, about the golden age of Japanese consumer electronics (wich also covers many events and actors in the US and UK).
David Kushner's Masters of Doom, about the heyday of Id Software.
The First Computers—History and Architectures is a more academic book, a selection of history papers, but it's still very readable. The Computer Pioneers: Pioneer Computers videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qundvme1Tik&list=PL14396C953... , presented by Gordon Moore himself, cover much of the same ground (it says little about the wartime Bletchley Park computers).
If I'm going to allow myself some videos then I should also mention Steve Blank "Secret History of Silicon Valley" talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo and David Alan Grier's "When Computers Were Human" talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwqltwvPnkw .
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212134-how-the-interne...
The 'Internet History Podcast' that was made while writing the book is also excellent.
The Friendly Orange Glow (2017) by Brian Dear is also very good. He's also on HN.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34373814-the-friendly-or...
Accidental Empires (1996) by Robert X Cringely is also pretty good:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27652.Accidental_Empires...
These books go into about as much detail.
It's more technical history.
Almost any really major technology or tech company likely has had a book or two written about it. Some examples off the top of my head:
The HP Way
The IBM Way
The New Magicians (Microsoft)
Heard of Fire in The Valley but not read it
The Soul of a New Machine
Hackers by Steven Levy
Sure to be many books about Unix
The Art of Unix Programming (more on tech, but a good amount of history)
There probably are more books about (in no particular order):
Dell, Sun Micro, Compaq, DEC, Novell, SCO, IBM, Wordstar, WordPerfect, Lotus (both company and tech), dBASE, Borland, Microsoft, AutoCAD, Adobe, HP, Silicon Graphics, Tandem, Ardent, Amdahl, Wang, Toshiba, Acer, Sony, Sinclair, Commodore, Atari, Acorn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Amazon, Netflix, Apple and a host of lesser-known or older companies, both in the US and elsewhere. The list above has non-US companies too.
It's fun to read about the history of our field. I keep doing a bit of it now and then.
That being said, I think you will be able to read it on the kindle player on a desktop computer. At least, that worked for me. I admit this is not ideal, but the book is fantastic and it was worth the extra effort.