| Description |
255 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Summary |
Home Computers' showcases the quirky and characterful beginnings of a commercial product that would come to unite the globe: the personal computer. 0As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design and techno-utopianism of an era in the not-so-distant past. Conceived as a visual sourcebook of the most popular, most powerful and most idiosyncratic computers to grace our workspaces, this timely publication offers a reflection on how far we've come and a nostalgic look at a time when digital worlds could be contained in a box and turned off, rather than ever-present in our lives. 0Home Computers opens with a scene-setting retrospective by computer and gaming writer Alex Wiltshire. The book's heart is a series of specially commissioned photographs that capture details of switches and early user-interface design, letterforms and logos, and the quirks that set one computer off from another. Images are complemented by a potted history of each device, the inventors or personalities behind it, and its innovations and influences. |
| Subject |
Microcomputers -- History.
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Microcomputers -- History -- Pictorial works.
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| Added Author |
Short, John.
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| ISBN |
0262044013 |
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9780262044011 |
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