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Id also add The Idea Factory* unless you have even better recommendations for Bell Labs era

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factor...

Showstopper, about windows NT, is a good replacement for Soul.

Yeah. I think if I read Dream Machine first I would have enjoyed Wizards less. But some of the history was new to me which meant that I enjoyed Wizards for those aspects and then Dream Machine for the detailed look into why it happened.

"The Soul of a New Machine" is not so much a foundational book but a snapshot of the computer industry and might be more interesting to someone who had no idea of the industry as I did when it was published in 1981. For me it was a fascinating glimpse into the tech industry that I would soon join, albeit in software not hardware.