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The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine
AuthorTracy Kidder
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComputer engineering
PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
Publication date
July 1981
Media typeHardcover
Pages293 pp
ISBN978-0-316-49170-9
OCLC7551785
Dewey Decimal
621.3819/582 19
LC ClassTK7885.4 .K53

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.[1]

The book, whose author was described by the New York Times as having "elevated it to a high level of narrative art"[2] is "about real people working on a real computer for a real company,"[3] and it won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction[4] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

  1. ^ "The Cathedral was a Computer". The New York Times. September 6, 1981.
  2. ^ Samuel C. Florman (August 23, 1981). "The Hardy Boys And The Microkids Make A Computer". The New York Times.
  3. ^ John W. Verity (October 1981). "The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder". Datamation. pp. 225–226.
  4. ^ "National Book Awards – 1982". National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
    This was the award for General Nonfiction (hardcover) during a period in National Book Awards history when there were many nonfiction subcategories.

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