[songeater]

This one and Sid Meier's "Memoir!" are two of my favourite software dev stories. Both are quick easy reads / and from the same era... code-nostalgia and hard- business mixed together.

[peterfirefly]

"The Autodesk File Bits of History, Words of Experience":

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/

[teddyh]

The Network Revolution – confessions of a computer scientist (1982) <https://books.google.com/books?id=6f8VqnZaPQwC>