Ooh, I'll have to look out for that. And that reminds me, in turn, of two more books - Simon Lavington's "Early British Computers", which I first read when I was still at school and found it in my local library, although it's a little on the perfunctorily technical side; and Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine", which described the same kind of temporary unification of creative talent, and similarly made me feel sad when it fell apart.