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• Biographies
• Computer Collecting
• Corporate Computer History
• General Computer History
• Internet History
• Neo-Retro
• Software History
• Special Interest
• Video Game History

• The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (B)
• Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond (B)
• John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More (B)
• Jeff Bezos: Business Genius of Amazon.Com (B)
• Jeff Bezos: King Of Amazon.Com (B)
• Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft (B)
• Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America (B)
• Bill Gates (B)
• John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death (B)
• John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing (B)
• The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intellegence, And Artificial Life (B)
• Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker (B)
• Dark Hero Of The Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics (B)
• Alan Turing: The Enigma (B)
• Charles Babbage and the Engines of Perfection (B)
• Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer (B)
• Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: Prophet of the Computer Age (B)
• Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer (B)
• Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (B)
• Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward (B)
• On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple (B)
• Biography: Bill Gates (V)
• Biography: Steve Wozniak (V)
• Steve Wozniak, Inventor of the Apple Computer (B)
• Steve Wozniak: A Wizard Called Woz (B)
• Charles Babbage: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (B)
• iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business (B)
• Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer (B)
• The Inventor and the Pilot (B)
• Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines (B)
• Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engine (B)
• Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (B)
• William C. Norris: Portrait of a Maverick (B)
• Pieces of the Action (B)
• The Lengthening Shadow: The Life of Thomas J. Watson (B)
• iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (B)

• Collectible Microcomputers (B)
• A Collector's Guide to Personal Computers and Pocket Calculators (B)
• A Guide to Collecting Computers and Computer Collectibles: History, Practice, and Technique (B)
• Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators (B)
• Retro-Electro: Collecting Technology from Atari to Walkmen (B)

• 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com (B)
• Amazon.com: Get Big Fast (B)
• Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut (B)
• Big Shots, Business the Amazon.com Way: Secrets of the Worlds Most Astonishing Web Business (2nd Edition) (B)

AOL History

• AOL.com (B)
• There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future (B)
• Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner (B)
• Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner (B)
• My Life at AOL (B)

Apple Computer History

• Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company (B)
• The Cult of Mac (B)
• Revolution in The Valley (B)
• Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything (B)
• The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (B)
• Infinite Loop: How Apple, The World's Most Insanely Great Company, Went Insane (B)
• West of Eden: The End of Innocence at Apple Computer (B)
• The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer (B)
• Accidental Millionaire: The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer (B)
• Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders (B)
• The Macintosh Way (B)
• Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton (B)
• The Mac Bathroom Reader (B)

Atari History

• Once Upon Atari (V)

Cisco History

• Making the Cisco Connection : The Story Behind the Real Internet Superpower (B)
• Inside Cisco: The Real Story of Sustained M&A Growth (B)
• John Chambers and the Cisco Way: Navigating Through Volatility (B)
• The Eye of the Storm: How John Chambers Steered Cisco Through the Technology Collapse (B)

Commodore History

• On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore (B)

Digital Equipment Corporation History

• DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation (B)
• Images of America: Digital Equipment Corporation (B)
• The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation (B)
• Digital at Work: Snapshots from the First Thirty-Five Years (B)

eBay History

• The Perfect Store: Inside eBay (B)
• The e-Bay Phenomenon: Business Secrets Behind the World's Hottest Internet Company (B)
• The e-Bay Phenomenon: Business Secrets Behind the World's Hottest Internet Company (A)

Hewlett-Packard History

• The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (B)
• Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett Packard (B)
• Backfire: Carly Fiorina's High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard (B)

IBM History

• IBM's Early Computers (B)
• IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems (B)
• The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM (B)
• IBM Redux: Lou Gerstner and the Business Turnaround of the Decade (B)
• Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround (B)
• A Business and Its Beliefs: The Ideas That Helped Build IBM (B)
• Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology (B)
• Memories That Shaped an Industry: Decisions Leading to IBM System/360 (B)
• Who's Afraid of Big Blue?: How Companies Are Challenging IBM--And Winning (B)

Intel History

• Creating the Digital Future: The Secrets of Consistent Innovation at Intel (B)
• Inside Intel: Andrew Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company (B)

Microsoft History

• Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (B)
• The Microsoft Way: The Real Story of How the Company Outsmarts Its Competition (B)
• Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft (B)
• Microsoft Rebooted: How Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Reinvented Their Company (B)
• The Road Ahead (B)
• The Road Ahead (A)
• Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur (B)
• Show Stopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (B)
• Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace (B)
• Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft from the Inside (B)
• The Microsoft File: The Secret Case against Bill Gates (B)

Oracle History

• Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle (B)
• Everyone Else Must Fail : The Unvarnished Truth About Oracle and Larry Ellison (B)
• The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison (B)
• The Oracle of Oracle: The Story of Volatile CEO Larry Ellison and the Strategies Behind His Company's Phenomenal Success (B)

Other Corporate Computer Histories

• Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry (B)
• High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems (B)
• Wired: A Romance (B)
• All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster (B)
• Sonic Boom (B)
• Irresistible Forces: The Business Legacy of Napster and the Growth of the Underground Internet (B)
• PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth (B)
• Inside Yahoo! Reinvention and the Road Ahead (B)
• Inside Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire Industry (B)
• A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success, and Reckoning (B)
• A Few Good Men from Univac (B)
• L.E.O.: The Incredible Story of the World's First Business Computer (B)
• Sunburst: The Ascent of Sun Microsystems (B)
• Hypergrowth: The Rise and Fall of Osborne Computer Corporation (B)
• Once Upon a Time in Computerland: The Amazing, Billion-Dollar Tale of Bill Millard (B)
• The Legend of Amdahl (B)
• Architects of Information Advantage: The Mitre Corporation Since 1958 (B)
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (B)

Tandy/Radio Shack History

• Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution (B)

Xerox History

• Dealers of Lightning : Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (B)
• Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer (B)
• Copies in Seconds : How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg (B)
• Xerox: American Samurai (B)
• My Years With Xerox: the Billions Nobody Wanted (B)
• Prophets in the Dark: How Xerox Reinvented Itself and Beat Back the Japanese (B)

• A History of Modern Computing (B)
• Computer: A History of the Information Machine (B)
• The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer (B)
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (B)
• The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition (B)
• The Cathedral & the Bazaar (B)
• Triumph of the Nerds (V)
• A History of Computing Technology (2nd Edition) (B)
• The First Computers: History and Architectures (A)
• The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann (B)
• ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer (B)
• From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing (B)
• eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work (B)
• Accidental Empires (B)
• In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters (B)
• The Computer and the Brain (Second Edition) (B)
• Computing in the Middle Ages: A View from the Trenches 1955-1983 (B)
• Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics (B)
• The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (B)
• Hacker Culture (B)
• Who Invented the Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History (B)
• Computers: An Illustrated History (B)
• Digital Retro (B)
• The Soul of a New Machine (B)
• Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park (B)
• The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing (B)
• History of Computing: An Encyclopedia of the People and Machines that Made Computer History (C)
• Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors (B)
• Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Müller, Charles Babbage, and Georg and Edvard Sheutz (B)
• The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer (B)
• Pirates of Silicon Valley (V)
• Creation of the Computer (V)
• A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology (B)
• A History of Personal Workstations (B)
• Computing Perspectives (B)
• Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer Age (B)
• Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer (B)
• Kasparov and Deep Blue: The Historic Chess Match Between Man and Machine (B)
• Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion (B)
• Deep Blue (B)
• Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (V)
• Guide to U.S. Computer Museums (B)
• A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age (B)
• Breakthrough to the Computer Age (B)
• The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes (B)
• The Collected Works of John von Neumann (B)
• The Zeroth Generation (B)
• Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer (B)
• Computing Before Computers (B)
• Babbage's Calculating Engines : A Collection of Papers by Henry Prevost Babbage (B)
• Early British Computers: The Story of Vintage Computers and the People Who Built Them (B)
• The SAGE Air Defense System: A Personal History (B)
• From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of The SAGE Air Defense Computer (B)
• Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created 1865-1956 (B)
• Portraits in Silicon (B)
• A History of Scientific Computing (B)
• Reckoners: The Prehistory of the Digital Computer, from Relays to the Stored Program Concept, 1935-1945 (B)
• The Illiac IV: The First Supercomputer (B)
• A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century: A Collection of Papers (B)
• Architects of the Information Society: Thirty-Five Years of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT (B)
• Project Whirlwind: The History of a Pioneer Computer (B)
• The New Hacker's Dictionary (B)
• BBS: The Documentary (V)
• How Computers Were Invented (V)
• Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers (B)
• The Computer: An Illustrated History (B)

• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet (B)
• Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web (B)
• Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web (A)
• How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web (B)
• Inventing the Internet (B)
• The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush (B)
• E-Dreams (V)
• Startup.com (V)
• Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet (B)
• dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath (B)
• Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era (B)
• Next: The Future Just Happened (B)
• Next: The Future Just Happened (A)
• F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts (B)
• The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ron Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms (B)
• Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business (B)
• Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing (B)
• Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (B)
• Casting the Net: From ARPAnet to Internet and Beyond (B)
• High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars (B)
• Code Rush (V)
• The Internet: Behind The Web-Modern Marvels (V)
• Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (V)

• Apple I Replica Creation: Back To The Garage (B)
• Retro Game Programming: Unleashed for the Masses (B)

• From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog : A History of the Software Industry (B)
• Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists and Iconoclasts (B)
• History of Programming Languages (B)

• The Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace (B)
• Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (B)
• Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (A)
• The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick (B)
• Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (B)
• Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier (B)
• The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers (B)
• Spam Kings: The Real Story behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@)# Enlargements (B)
• Inside the SPAM Cartel (B)
• The KGB, the Computer and Me (V)

Electronics History

• Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (B)
• The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution (B)

General Technology History

• The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers (B)
• When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (B)
• Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States (B)
• The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine (B)
• Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen (B)
• Automata and Mechanical Toys (B)
• The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (B)
• A Quarter Century of UNIX (B)
• The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers (B)
• Magnetic Recording: The First 100 Years (B)

Linux/Open Source History

• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (B)
• Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (B)
• Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (A)
• Revolution OS (V)
• Free for All: How LINUX and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans (B)

Route 128 History

• Route 128 & the Birth of the Age of High Tech (B)
• Building Route 128 (B)

Silicon Valley History

• Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer (B)
• Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley (B)
• The Silicon Boys And Their Valley of Dreams (B)
• The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (B)
• The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (A)
• The Valley of Heart's Delight: A Silicon Valley Notebook, 1963-2001 (B)
• The Nudist on the Late Shift: And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley (B)
• Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure (B)
• Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance (V)
• Geek Silicon Valley (B)

• Game Over : How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children (B)
• Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels (B)
• Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life (B)
• Arcade Fever: The Fan's Guide to The Golden Age of Video Games (B)
• The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon (B)
• The Medium of the Video Game (B)
• Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (B)
• Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to Chic (B)
• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (B)
• High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games (Second Edition) (B)
• Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 (B)
• The Encyclopedia of Game Machines (B)

Video Game Collecting

• Official Price Guide to Classic Video Games: Console, Arcade, and Handheld Games (B)
• Digital Press Video Game Collector's Guide (B)
• Video Game Bible, 1985-2002 (B)
• Digital Press Video Game Collector's Guide Advance (B)
• Watson's 2007-2008 Price Guide for Vintage Electronic Games (B)