16 Jan
2005
16 Jan
'05
3:15 a.m.
I own this, it's a nice coffee table book with many colorful photos, but don't
look to it as a serious history text.
--- Arlen Michaels <arlen(a)acm.org> wrote:
There's a brief review of "Digital Retro: The
Evolution and Design of the
Personal Computer" by the British author Gordon Laing (Sybex, 2004) here:
http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=57868#
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From the review: "If you look at today¹s
boring beige boxes, or the sleek
design of the Mac, it¹s hard to believe that
personal computers once had
personality. Where homogeneity is now the norm, 20 years ago everyone
marched to his own drummer, producing machines that looked, felt and worked
differently, and whose data and software was totally incompatible. Digital
Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer, by Gordon Laing,
celebrates those pioneering days in words and pictures, telling the tales of
44 early machines ranging from the MITS Altair to the NeXT Cube."
Arlen Michaels