Cyril's Gleans

Cyril's currently recommended minimum IBM book list

The two best books on IBM are

The Maverick and His Machine – Maney

Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology -- Emerson W. Pugh

The book with the most flavor is

Inside IBM: The Watson Years -- William W. Simmons

Second is

How They Achieved – Lucinda Watson (daughter of TJW, Jr.)

The oddest book is

And Tomorrow…the World -- Rex Malik

The following are pretty much mandatory

IBM’s 360 and Early 370 Systems -- Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer
IBM’s Early Computers -- Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, Emerson W. Pugh
Father, Son & Co. – Watson and Petre
A Business and Its Beliefs: The Ideas That Helped Build IBM – Watson (Jr.)

Cyril liked

The Computer Establishment – Katherine Fishman
The Sun Never Sets on IBM -- Foy
The Romance Division…a Different Side of IBM -- Deloca and Kalow

Cyril edited

IBM System/38 Technical Developments (1978 IBM General Systems Division) – ISBN – 0-933186-00-2

Indirectly about IBM (and also edited by Cyril)

Design & Memory: Computer Programming in the 20th Century - Peter H. Huyck and Nellie W. Kremenak

Reading recommendations for kids in the 8-14 age range as of March 8, 2010

Everything in the Puffin series – all of the Newbery Medal and Honor books

After much thought, have decided the best writer for children I have encountered, both boys and girls in the 8-14 age range, is

Rosemary Sutcliff

others close in the mixed sex race include

- C. S. Lewis
- P. L. Travers
- Jean Craighead George
- Farley Mowat.

Writers/books recommended for boys in the 8-14 age range include:

- A. E. van Vogt
- Ambrose Bierce
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Bill Bryson
- Booth Tarkington (mainly the Penrod stories)
- Clarence E. Mulford
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Eric Knight
- G. A. Henty
- H. G. Wells
- H. H. Munro
- Harry Leon Wilson
- Henry Clay Lewis
- Herman Melville (mainly Typee and Omoo)
- Howard Pease
- Howard Pyle
- James Fennimore Cooper
- John Collier
- John D. MacDonald (mainly the Travis McGee series)
- John Myers Myers (both fiction and non-fiction)
- Joseph A. Altsheler
- Jules Verne
- Leslie Charteris
- Mark Twain
- Max Brand (and most of Frederick Faust’s other pseudonyms)
- Nathanial Hawthorne
- Nordhoff and Hall (mainly the Bounty trilogy)
- P. C. Wren
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Philip Wylie
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Robert Heinlein
- Somerset Maugham
- Thorne Smith
- Washington Irving
- Zane Gray

Writers/books suitable for boys in the 8-14 age range include:

- A. E. van Vogt
- Ambrose Bierce
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Clarence E. Mulford
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- G. A. Henty
- H. G. Wells
- H. H. Munro
- Henry Clay Lewis
- Herman Melville
- Howard Pease
- Howard Pyle
- James Fennimore Cooper
- John Collier
- John D. MacDonald
- John Myers Myers
- Joseph A. Altsheler
- Jules Verne
- Leslie Charteris
- Mark Twain
- Max Brand
- Nathanial Hawthorne
- Nordhoff and Hall
- P. C. Wren
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Robert Heinlein
- Somerset Maugham
- Washington Irving
- Zane Gray