What shocked me when I saw Elite for the first time, is the huge number of star systems with their own names, population size and descriptions. I knew there was no way such volume of data in the tiny executable file.
Thank you for mentioning Wasniak book!
I really enjoyed iWas.
Another great book is “Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer” (Second Edition) 2nd Edition
by Paul Freiberger (Author), Michael Swaine (Author)
And I like as well a book from Merrill Chapman. “In search of stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters”.