Data General

This snapshot deals with Data General, the minicomputer manufacturer immortalised in one of the earliest works of high tech 'new journalism'.

It covers -

• introduction
• the enterprise
• key figures
• studies

     introduction

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     the enterprise

David Lundstrom's A Few Good Men From Univac (Cambridge: MIT Press 1987) is an academic history. Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1984) is the most lasting memento of DG.  

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