reading material

i have been reading a lot of techie type books recently, and as a result finding out lots of interesting things about my beloved appliance, such as that the first word processor i ever used(easy writer) was written by john 'captain crunch' draper. and that steve wozniak insisted that apple be an open system, because of his hacker background, and participation in the people's computer club. it's kind of strange that apple has gone from of being one of the most open computer companies to being one of the most closed computer companies to kind of starting to open up again. i've also found out that the two people responsible for ENIAC and UNIVAC(eckert and mauchly) have been basically denied their due credit for developing digital computers. the college where they developed and built ENIAC has a placard telling people that the computer was invented there, but doesn't mention either of the inventors. they have had their patent for ENIAC taken away from them, and another person is credited with inventing the electronic digital computer, even though his "adding machine" was an electric mechanical unit that required physical motion to work.

anyhow, i have been enjoying my reading lately(which was sparked by watching revolution os) and wanted to list the books i've been reading for ya'll to see if anyone gets sparked by me:

just for fun by linux torvalds (thanks todd)
hackers by steve levy
eniac by scott mccartney
the cathedral and the bazaar by eric raymond

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