Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer

Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer High Stakes, No Prisoners - history of the birth of the Internet written by the founder of FrontPage, with a keen critique of Netscape's history - Charles Ferguson Computer Wars - a look at the decline of IBM by the early 90s - Charles Ferguson Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley - An oral history of the Valley in the 80s and 90s.

I second Fire in the Valley - there are a lot of good Mac-era anecdotes. Hertzfeld put a lot of them at https://www.folklore.org/ as well.

A few good ones that haven't been mentioned yet: * "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems " https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ibms-360-and-early-370-system... (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ibms-360-and-early-370-systems) * "Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35953464-broad-band * "Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1427580.Fire_in_the_Vall... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1427580.Fire_in_the_Valley)

Check out “Fire in the Valley.” It’s a classic!

Fire in the Valley, hands-down.