Steven Levys "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" from 1984 is a great read. It pictures three major hacker cultures: the MIT hackers; Woz and the other early hardware hackers; and the video game hackers of the 70's/80's.<p><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution" rel="nofollow">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hackers:_Hero...</a><p>John Markoffs "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" from 2005 is another great book that follows the history of the PC industry, from it's roots in the ideas of Vannevar Bush and Doug Engelbart to the modern PC. IIRC Woz and the MIT hackers are portrayed here as well, but there's not too much overlap with Levy's book.<p><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said" rel="nofollow">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/What_the_Dorm...</a>