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The Soul of a New Machine  

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  • Tracy Kidder's 1981 Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award winner, The Soul of a New Machine, chronicles the development of a mainframe computer, the Eagle, at the Data General Corporation. In the book, Kidder provides a window into the high-tech culture of computer software and hardware engineering that few had previously seen, describing the culture of the fast-paced computer industry, along with the lives of the engineers who were seeking to accomplish the impossible. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; The Soul of a New Machine]

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