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I haven't seen Tracy Kidder's name on this thread. He wrote "Soul of a New
Machine," in the early '80s, in which he described the development, from
start-to-finish, of a new computer design. It covered technical stuff in
clear plain language, as well as documenting the whole year in the life of
the team's members.
