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Home Computers 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation

English · Paperback / Softback

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Home Computers showcases the quirky and characterful beginnings of a commercial product that would come to unite the globe: the personal computer. As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design and techno-utopianism of an era in the not-so-distant past.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. Home 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.

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'A world away from the devices used today, the computers in the book illustrate the rapid march of technology' - Observer

Product details

Authors John Short, Alex Wiltshire
Assisted by John Short (Photographs), Short John (Photographs)
Publisher Thames & Hudson
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.04.2020
 
EAN 9780500022160
ISBN 978-0-500-02216-0
No. of pages 256
Dimensions 210 mm x 250 mm x 20 mm
Weight 1280 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing

COMPUTERS / History, Personal computers, Contemporary Design;Technology

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