This article also explains the intricacies of designing and debugging such a machine, where you have to control the flow of electric current through thousands of chips in timeframes of a couple hundred-billionths of a second. Soul of a New Machine explains how Tom West managed his team by giving them freedom and making sure that they were always motivated on working nights and weekends for no extra pay, all because they felt that it would be exciting to see their new product hit the market. The author, Tracy Kidder got the chance to follow a team of engineers as they attempted to build a next-generation computer, even when the very company they worked for was reluctant to even let them try. In the late 1970s, there was a lot of money to be made in the minicomputer industry.
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