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Title: One of my favorites.
Review: My first experience with computers was taking (and dropping) a Fortran IV class in 1964 at the U of Mo Rolla. To read of the excellence and genius of the early fathers of computing is a mind boggling experience. This is the only book I ever bought and paid for 3 times, twice in paperback and now as an ebook. The misguided souls who have panned this book I can only assume grew up in the last 10 years where using a computer is about as difficult as using a cook book. What we take for granted today those early pioneers had to first conceive of and put into practice, much of it seeming to be magic. Were they quirky characters? Of course, who else could have brought about the revolution? I don't agree with their politics but I envy them their intellect and that they were there when the big bang of computing took place. Even the game hackers did things no one thought possible. I can't recommend this book highly enough, at least if you were of age when the whole computer thing began.
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