What do you think of this bibliography? Have I missed any important book
on the subject? Please help me in making this a useful refence for
everybody to use, if you care. Thank you
HOME & PERSONAL COMPUTERS HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books listed as TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER AND PUBLICATION DATE
- Computer lib/Dream Machines by Ted Nelson, self published in 1974
(reprinted by Tempus Books in an updated form in 1987)
- An introduction to microcomputers (vol.0) by Adam Osborne, self
published in 1977
- The personal computer book by Robin Bradbeer, Gower, 1980
- The making of the Micro by Christopher Evans, Victor Gollancz Ltd.,
1981
- Illustrating Computers by Day & Alcock, Pan Books, 1982
- The personal computer handbook by Varley/Graham, Pan Books Ltd., 1983
- Fire in the Valley by Freiberger/Swaine, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1984
- Bit by bit, an illustrated history of computers by Stan Augarten,
Ticknor and Fields, 1984
- The little Kingdom by Michael Moritz, William Morrow & Co. Inc., 1984
- Hackers by Steven Levy, Doubleday/Anchor, 1984
- Digital Deli by Steve Ditlea, Workman Publishing, 1984
- Silicon Valley Fever by Robers, Everett & Larson, Basic Books, 1984
- Woz by Doug Garr ?
- The Third Apple by Jean-Louis Gassee, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985
- The Sinclair story by Rodney Dale, Duckworth, 1985
- Sinclair and the age of the rising sun technology by Adamson and
Kennedy, Penguin, 1986
- John Sculley, Odissey by John Byrne, Harper & Row, 1987
- Steve Jobs, the journey is the reward by Jeffrey S. Young, Scott,
Foresman & Co., 1988
- Accidental Millionaire by Lee Butcher, Paragon House, 1988
- West of Eden by Frank Rose, Viking, 1989
- Hard Drive by Wallace & Erickson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992
- Whole Earth Software review magazine, Whole Earth Review
- Wired magazine
- A collector's guide to PERSONAL COMPUTERS and pocket calculators (an
historical, rarity and value guide) by Dr.Thomas F.Haddock, Books
Americana, 1993
- Accidental Empires by Robert X.Cringely, Harper Business, 1993
- Insanely great by Steven Levy, Penguin Books, 1994
- The Microprocessor: a Biography by Michael S. Malone,
Telos/Springer-Verlag, 1995
- The Chip and How It Changed the World (History and Invention) by Ian
Locke, 1995.
NOTE: If I had to have only one book I would choose Computer lib. Some
of these books are out of print. If you would like
to find them you will have to go through a book finding service. I use
Culpin's Bookshop, 3827 W.32nd Ave., Denver, CO
80211, USA. The ones in print can be ordered through your local bookshop
or by post from Computer Literacy bookshop,
2590 North First Street, SAN JOSE', CA 95131, USA, tel.(703) 734-7771,
fax (703) 734-7773.
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In a message dated 97-06-22 22:13:42 EDT, you write:
<< Have a mint condition Kaypro 10, complete with all manuals. Looks like it
came out of the box. Works great, all original software.
If you know of anyone who has a serious interest, please e-mail me.
Don Sarno
>>
I would be interested. what are you looking for?
Kelly
>I can understand why the Apple ][ has a significant following - it was a
>machine that was 'open', that hackers could get inside, etc. But I also
>know that it's not a good piece of hardware design, and thus don't put it
>high up my list of interesting machines.
Perhaps I am merely biased from growing up with the Apple ][ at school
and, later, at home, but I would say that some of the design is
ingenious. I do know that many a programmer has complained about the
arrangement of the high-resolution screen in memory (which was
arranged the way it is to save components). But, I find the economy of
this feature fascinating.
The Apple ][ and its successors had great capabilities for expansion
(with the possible exception of the IIc and IIc+). A IIe has the
capability of using a hand-held scanner, for instance, with the right
slot card and the right software. I'm sure the IIe wasn't designed
originally for that task. There are numerous other examples as well.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
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My opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Wartburg College
as a whole.
I never thought much of the apple design save for it was there and
successful by the only standard that counts...they sold like hotcakes.
It's not a technical judgement as that really didn't count! there were some
machines I considered poor, TRS-80-M1, at a time when z80 was minimally 2mhz
and many pushing 2.5 it plodded at 1.7, but it was a complete machine for
much less than many of it's kind and available through a nationally known
store.
Price vs performance _and_ popularity drove a market not real technology.
If it was useable and met the current market expectations it sold well.
If there was one significant impact apple made it was in the idea of low
cost software. Apples were not the home of $350 basic interpreters or
$500 compilers. But at one time I counted not less that 5 distictly
different OSs. Some were pretty poor but the drive to improve the beast
was there.
Allison
Thought I would toss out some of my experiences with shipping out of the
country. I've sold a few items to various people in other countries (not
all computer stuff though). Only problem I've had was waiting for
payment. Sometimes it's not sent, sometimes it get's lost. The buyer
covers shipping and any taxes/duty when they get delivery.
Japan: I sold a couple old Apples as I think they're pretty popular for
collectibles there. Hard to find. Some people I sold to were US citizens
living there. Shipping is cheapest via USPS slow boat and the customs
paperwork is one small form.
Australia: Sold some small stuff. Payment arrived faster than most US
mail. Shipping is cheap for under 4 lbs "small packets" via USPS and
again Customs is a piece of cake.
Europe: Austria, Italy. They seem to have a problem with the mail. I
sold some cheaper stuff so the buyer sent a money order - lost. Then he
sent cash - lost. Ended up wiring the money. According to him he sent
out 12 payments at one time and 5 never arrived at the destination. I'd
say wiring money is better. Again customs is easy. USPS tells you what
to fill out.
Canada: Piece of cake. Just be honest on the contents/value.
Guam: Shipping is really cheap because its serviced by USPS. Like
mailing within the continental US!
There was some controversy a while back about exporting collectibles.
Supposedly you could buy a concours collector's car for $20k, ship it to
europe or Japan and sell it for $50k. Some collectors thought this was
treason or something. I really don't know. What I usually sell doesn't
fall into any "rare" category and most of it was sold all over the world
anyway, just in lesser quantities or slightly different versions.
One guy I sold to was in the US. I asked him why he was buying a pile of
old Apples, he was putting together complete systems and shipping them
to Japan. Funny, Apple had/has a ton of manufacturing in Japan. I wonder
if they limit sales there.
It was sold out.
I am sorry.
Yujin
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> ???o?l : PG Manney <manney(a)nwohio.nwohio.com>
> ???? : Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> ???? : Re: BOOK The History of Computers
> ???M???? : 1997?N6??20?? 20:22
>
> I'd like to buy. Can I reserve it? Please e-mail me with your address and
> I'll send you a check. (woukd you prefer money order? some sort of trade?
I
> have scads of old computer stuff.)
> Manney
>
> ----------
> > From: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
> > To: Manney
> > Subject: FS: BOOK The History of Computers
> > Date: Friday, June 20, 1997 1:52 PM
> >
> > For Sale:
> >
> > The History of Computers -A Family Alubum of Computer Genealogy-
> > by Les Freed
> > ZD press
> > ISBN 1-56276-275-3
> > all color and lots of pictures and illustrations
> >
> > $12 (shipping included within the United States, original price is
> $24.95)
> >
About a month or two back we were discussing starting a newsgroup for
classic computer collectors. I just wanted to mention there is a
somewhat related newsgroup on the net that could use some activity:
alt.technology.obsolete
I am for it, I have it on my news sites to check and in the last few
months I have maybe seen three messages in it (two being multi-newsgroup
spams)
Whaddya guys (and gals) think?
Larry Anderson
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> In particular, none of the Altairs I saw people building in the
> mid-70's worked as designed; there were typos in the assembly instructions
> and to get reliable front panel operation most people had to tweak
> the one-shots that controlled the timing. Some of these
> modifications are well documented by John Zarella, in his Byte
> (1975:4 p78) article "Assembling an Altair 8800".
RE:8800 (A version)
BIG TIME! As someone that built one of the first it was a dog to get going
and I had scopes and all the goodies. I'd also worked with the 8008 before
and was Intelized as it were. A friend build one about 6 months later and
it was still flakey as hell. First of many mods was to get the damm oneshots
off the cpu card and put in a 8224 clock generator. I got mine to a stable
state but when the S4K memories came out I upgraded asap. Better but far
>from great. To many oneshots. In late '78 I transfered my IO, NS* MDS to a
new HORIZON box with a 4mhz z80. used the altair for a few years to support
testing (front pannel). I put it in mothballs about 84 and will likely
never use it again. To highly modified to even consider museum piece and in
'79 it suffered a lightining hit and was never right since.
Allison
I realize this is a little off-topic (last build was about 1987 or 88)
but I have my self in a corner 8-) There are a couple of windows I could
crawl thru if I HAD to.
I have a pristene TI Xenix 386DX16 system.
I have access to one account and - you guessed it - it ain't root!
Nobody seems to remember the root password 8-(
I can't believe that I can't break into this thing! I don't have the
original disks (I haven't dug that far into ALL my docs) but it has
a SCSI Tape drive and two 8 port serial adaptors and some *special* TI
card. It has 2 140 MB MFM drives and I want to keep both the drivers
for the multiport boards and the SCSI board. I think I can get it to
run Linux but I *really* don't want to blow away the Xenix.
So - does any body know where I can find a way into Xenix?
Are there any archives of CERT Advisories on glaring holes I can
worm my way into editing the passwd file or something? I realize
I could run CRACK but since that isn't what I normally do for FUN
I was hoping the mass intellegence and huge experience in this list
might be able to help 8-)
All suggestions are welcome - except blowing it away.
BC
