Winner · National Book Awards 1982
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
1981 non-fiction work by Tracy Kidder
"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000. The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Non-fiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- non-fiction
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