| ▲ | abdulhaq 2 days ago |
| I found Showstopper! even more compelling |
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| ▲ | ghaff 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Those two books are probably the two best about tech projects I've ever read. I worked at Data General as a product manager for about 13 years and know many of the individuals although I joined a few years after the book was written. |
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| ▲ | le-mark 2 days ago | parent [-] | | What strikes me is the stories that never get told. I met a retiree at a Java meetup once who had worked at Zilog during the z8000 era. He was surprised to meet someone who knew about that. | | |
| ▲ | ghaff 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Especially, pre-web and pre-blogs there's a great deal of tech industry history that largely doesn't exist any longer unless it was especially notable and/or some author decided to spend a year or two writing about it. |
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| ▲ | JSR_FDED 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Cool thanks for the recommendation! |
