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2. Required reading in an 80s college class

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 04:58 PM

Yesterday

I think I saw a used copy at a thrift shop years ago.

Brings back memories

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Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80 [View all] highplainsdem Yesterday OP

... SheltieLover Yesterday #1

Required reading in an 80s college class BlueWaveNeverEnd Yesterday #2

along with a couple of others lapfog_1 Yesterday #7

Required reading in my Software Engineering class, and it was.... reACTIONary Yesterday #8

I wonder how the book would read today..still relevant or dated BlueWaveNeverEnd 22 hrs ago #11

I was wondering that myself, a while back.... reACTIONary 22 hrs ago #12

I had just started a programming job on an HP minicomputer William Seger Yesterday #3

From the San Francisco Chronicle: highplainsdem Yesterday #4

Northampton is my new "Home Town". And it is wonderful. erronis Yesterday #5

From the Harvard Gazette, 2010: highplainsdem Yesterday #6

Kick dalton99a Yesterday #9

A touchstone. nt Xipe Totec 23 hrs ago #10

We had those Data General machines in the 1980's. jeffreyi 21 hrs ago #14

I worked at Data General around the time this book was written. nclib 17 hrs ago #15