The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
It's a little zoomed out and more focused on information theory than computers, specifically, but the overlap is significant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_...
Quick plug for my HN book club on that book! We just finished Ch 1 of The Dream Machine, if you’re interested in joining.
The Art of Computer Programming contains a lot of computing history.
Also it is a lot of computing history.
Turing’s Cathedral
The Universal Computer
Computer Connections: https://computerhistory.org/blog/computer-history-museum-lic...
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann by Herman Goldstine.
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder.The Soul of a New Machine.
About the development of the Data General new minicomputer. Published 1982.
Singh Simon - Code book is an excellent and fantastic read about the history of cryptography and provide insights of what really drove technical improvements in ww1 and 2.
Brian Kernighan's newly released "UNIX: A History and a Memoir"
A Quarter Century of UNIX
Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
Fire in the Valley - The making of the Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine, published by McGraw Hill, 2000 463 pages. Excellent reference telling many of the P.C stories.
Dealers of lightning about Xerox parc is quite impressive
Two good ones: 1) Where Wizards Stay Up Late and 2) How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Chip War - Chris Miller
The standard textbooks by historians are:
A History of Modern Computing by Paul Ceruzzi
There is a completely rewritten version of this with an additional author:
A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi
Also:
Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray
There are good books by journalists and popular writers. Favorites on HN are:
The Dream Machine -- you are already reading this. Also:
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner and Matthey Lyon
These and many many other books are recomended and described in this HN thread from a few years ago:
Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692281