Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation - Couverture rigide

Wiltshire, Alex

 
9780262044011: Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation
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ISBN 10 : 0262044013 ISBN 13 : 9780262044011
Editeur : MIT Press, 2020

Synopsis

A celebration of the early years of the digital revolution, when computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk.

Today, people carry powerful computers in our pockets and call them "phones." A generation ago, people were amazed that the processing power of a mainframe computer could be contained in a beige box on a desk. This book is a celebration of those early home computers, with specially commissioned new photographs of 100 vintage computers and a generous selection of print advertising, product packaging, and instruction manuals. Readers can recapture the glory days of fondly remembered (or happily forgotten) machines including the Commodore 64, TRS-80, Apple Lisa, and Mattel Aquarius--traces of the techno-utopianism of the not-so-distant past.

Home Computers showcases mass-market success stories, rarities, prototypes, one-offs, and never-before-seen specimens. The heart of the book is a series of artful photographs that capture idiosyncratic details of switches and plugs, early user-interface designs, logos, and labels. After a general scene-setting retrospective, the book proceeds computer by computer, with images of each device accompanied by a short history of the machine, its inventors, its innovations, and its influence. Readers who inhabit today's always-on, networked, inescapably connected world will be charmed by this visit to an era when the digital revolution could be powered down every evening.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alex Wiltshire is a writer and consultant for video games, design, and technology. He is the author of Minecraft Blockopedia and has written for such publications as Rock Paper Shotgun and PC Gamer.

John Short is a photographer based in London. His work appears regularly in Wallpaper*.

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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262044013
ISBN 13 
9780262044011
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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