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Folklore.org is full of fascinating anecdotes.

I'm starving for more stories of this size from CS history. PARC, Bell Labs, wherever! I'm sure there's thousands of fun little stories out there.



Here are two great books on the topic: - xerox dealer of lightning, about PARC: https://archive.org/details/dealersoflightni00hilt - fire in the valley, about the development of personal computers : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1427580.Fire_in_the_Vall...

My personal favorite is The soul of a new machine, an account of a team trying to create a new computer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine




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