The WordPerfect story as told by an early executive, Pete Peterson:

http://www.wordplace.com/ap/almostperfect.pdf

If you're interested in this topic, there is probably no better source now than the recent John Romero autobiography Doom Guy

This is the site that convinced me to seek out and buy a PDP-8 of my own back in 2008. Not a PiDP-8, a 1971 PDP-8/e with 12KW of core memory, a TU56 DECtape, a VC8E vector boardset, and a couple teletypes. And then a '73 8/m. And a '75 8/f. And many, many boards and gizmos. And and and. It's been a 6-digit...mistake? Investment? Hobby? Labor of love?

They're not particularly powerful computers, particularly in 2023 - basically a microcontroller in today's terms - but man are they visceral.

SIMH does a good job of letting you run PDP-8 software, but if you want to poke around inside a PDP-8 I really recommend Brian Shelburne's PDP8MAIN simulator (for DOS, but runs perfectly in DOSBox). You can get everything you need here: https://github.com/rrutt/PDP8/tree/master

A PDP-8 programmer's reference from 1969 is available here: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp8/handbooks/IntroToProgr...

It's a lovely system. Extremely minimal, but capable and entertaining.

The thing about being really smart is that you can find incredible gambles.

Engineer Guy (a fantastic YouTube channel for learning how things work) has an audiovisual curriculum for this book.

http://www.engineerguy.com/faraday/

Oh, friend. You are missing out.

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/