The Soul of a New Machine- 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, whose author “elevated it to a high level of narrative art” is “about real people working on a real computer for a real company,”