Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer
Gordon Laing, "Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer "
English | ISBN: 1904705391 | 2004 | PDF | 192 pages | 10 MB/10 MB
English | ISBN: 1904705391 | 2004 | PDF | 192 pages | 10 MB/10 MB
Compatibility? Forget it! Each of these computers was its own machine and had no intention of talking to anything else. Much like their owners in fact, who passionately defended their machines with a belief verging on the religious.
This book tells the story behind 40 classic home computers of an infamous decade, from the dreams and inspiration, through passionate inventors and corporate power struggles, to their final inevitable extinction, and subsequent worship by the nostalgic collectors market. Digital Retro is an essential read for anyone who owned a home computer in the Eighties.