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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