Comment by ontouchstart

I am in the middle of reading a fascinating book about the early days of computing: Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson. It really opened my eyes to American engineering craft post WWW II.

We seem to take everything for granted now and forget what real engineering is like.

This review is 13 years old by itself:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/25/turings-cathed...