Digital Retro by Laing
Digital Retro (2004)
by Gordon Laing
192 pages - Sybex
This is a sort of coffee-table book personal computers, from the first pre-assembled machines in the mid-1970s until the triumph of the IBM-PC clones at the end of the 80s. There are a lot of pictures of each machine, from every conceivable angle; to the extent that this sometimes feels like those fold-out centrefolds that Bender ogles on Futurama. The sparse text is less impressive, and perplexingly they do things like have a numbered list of ports, but then don't number the photographic close-ups. But, it is kind of interesting to look back and see all of these unique computers that all had their own operating system and programs which had no interest in being compatible with anything else.
by Gordon Laing
192 pages - Sybex
This is a sort of coffee-table book personal computers, from the first pre-assembled machines in the mid-1970s until the triumph of the IBM-PC clones at the end of the 80s. There are a lot of pictures of each machine, from every conceivable angle; to the extent that this sometimes feels like those fold-out centrefolds that Bender ogles on Futurama. The sparse text is less impressive, and perplexingly they do things like have a numbered list of ports, but then don't number the photographic close-ups. But, it is kind of interesting to look back and see all of these unique computers that all had their own operating system and programs which had no interest in being compatible with anything else.