Check out Computer Wars by Ferguson for probably a better version of that. The Ferguson book sent me down a lot of historical rabbit holes that didn't have wikipedia pages yet and I had to pull up things on like newspapers.com or archive.org to find out more information. No shade on Cringley though, it's a fine book.
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