Home computers : 100 icons that defined a digital generation / text by Alex Wiltshire ; photography by John Short.
By: Wiltshire, Alex [author.].
Contributor(s): Short, John [photographer.].
Publisher: Cambridge Massachusetts : MIT Press, ©2020Description: 255 p: illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0262044013; 9780262044011.Subject(s): Microcomputers -- History | Microcomputers -- History -- Pictorial worksGenre/Form: History. | Pictorial works. | Print books.Summary: 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 As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design and techno-utopianism of an era in the not-so-distant past.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.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"Produced in collaboration with The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK".
Published by arrangement with Thames & Hudson, Ltd., London.
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 As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design and techno-utopianism of an era in the not-so-distant past.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.