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The Soul of an Old Machine
How to win a Pulitzer Prize writing about computers
After a number of false starts, the project got underway in earnest in 1978, with a core of experienced engineers supplemented with a group of new - and inexpensive - college graduates. The descriptive passages will not ''explain'' computers to the average reader (at least they did not significantly increase my own very superficial knowledge), but they give a feeling, a flavor, that adds to one's understanding - as broadly, or even poetically, defined. He can push, but when it comes time to pop, he goes off in all directions”—which means that the poor fellow can receive and understand information but he can’t retrieve it in an orderly fashion.
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