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superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design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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