Bootstrapping

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1. kbr2000Apr 2020
   I can recommend to get a copy of

   * Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution, by Lamont Wood.

   * The Soul of A New Machine, by Tracy Kidder.

   * Books by George Dyson (son of ...): Darwin Among the Machines, Turing's Cathedral. (unrelated, but also give Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship a go)

   * The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, by Leslie Berlin.

   * Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA

   * Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing, by Thierry Bardini.

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2. joehewittJul 2013
   There was a book written on Engelbart's work and his philosophies which I enjoyed reading many years ago:

   Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing http://www.amazon.com/Bootstrapping-Engelbart-Coevolution-Pe...

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3. mitchbobDec 2023
   The story of Engelbart's group and EST also appears in the very detailed history of Engelbart's life and work, Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing by Thierry Bardini [1].

   [1] https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=308

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4. pmcjonesApr 2023
   _Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing_ by Thierry Bardini

   https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0804738718/ref=nosim...

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