The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Back in the late 1970s, minicomputers were the rage. Boston was on par with Silicon Valley. Engineers would devote years of their time to solve their problems in development. The adventure came was one of the first "video games", and also a good test of the reliability of a system. Data General was the "upstart" competitor of the established Digital Electronics. This book details the people and the work behind one of data generals new computers. While the specific problems they solved were different, the human interactions feel quite similar to those at today's aggressively growing tech companies.
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