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addenda - a very short list of computer books - all with an IBM flavor

• A Business and Its Beliefs: The Ideas That Helped Build IBM – Watson (Jr.)
• A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering – Endres and Rombach
• And Tomorrow…the World -- Rex Malik [not reliable but fun]
• Automatic Data Processing [IBM 650 edition] – Brooks and Iverson
• Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology -- Emerson W. Pugh [best IBM history book]
• Coded Character Sets: History and Development – MacKenzie
• Computer Establishment, The -- Katherine Fishman [fun and I think reliable]
• Design & Memory -- Huyck and Kremenak
• Father, Son & Co: My Life at IBM and Beyond – Watson (Jr.)
• IBM System/38 Technical Developments (1978 IBM General Systems Division) – ISBN – 0-933186-00-2
• IBM’s 360 and Early 370 Systems -- Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer
• IBM’s Early Computers -- Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, Emerson W. Pugh
• Inside IBM - Maisonrouge
• Inside IBM: The Watson Years -- William W. Simmons [well worth reading – full of flavor]
• Maverick and His Machine, The - Maney  (mandatory)
• Mythical Man Month, The - Brooks
• Romance Division…a Different Side of IBM, The -- Deloca and Kalow
• SAGE Air Defense System, The – Jacobs
• Story of Magic, The – Rowlett
• Sun Never Sets on IBM, The -- Foy

NB #1 – for a list of books on various aspects of computer history, see List of Books on The History of Computing

NB #2 - two books by ex-BMer Mark Halpern:  Language & Human Nature; Binding Time