Buy "20 GOTO 10"

This book is fantastic. If you lived through the microcomputer revolution of the 1970’s and 1980’s it will refresh a lot of memories. If not, it will give you a wonderful glimpse into that time. It’s packed with facts and stories you didn’t know you cared about until you read them.

Some of the articles are tiny, some span several pages. All of them are uniquely identified by a “line number” and each has references to other related stories. You can follow a path through the text and reach a happy ending, or just an ending. Or you can do what I do, which is dive into the text and just read stuff I fancy.

The printing is small, but that just leaves more room for detail. You should buy and read this if you have any interest in computers and where they came from. And if you have no interest, buy it anyway and learn even more. I can’t recommend it highly enough.