Daily Reading (26 April 2015)

[nanila]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

Comments

[nanila]

This reminds me of a book I read by Georgina Ferry: A computer called LEO: Lyons Teashops and the world’s first office computer. I picked it up because I so enjoyed her biography of Dorothy Hodgkin, and I remember it made me sad when the creative drive that produced LEO fizzled.

[thamesynne]

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.