31 Oct
2005
31 Oct
'05
8:35 a.m.
John Honniball wrote:
Yep, some are from Swindon, most of them are ours (Bletchley), and a
handful were from private collections. The plan was always for a coffee
table type of book, so there's not much technical info in there at all.
I seem to remember it was something of an oddball list too when they
were initially looking for machines - there were some surprising things
on there, whilst several important machines seemed to be missing.
Annoyingly (as a couple of my own machines are in there) I've never
actually seen a copy except for a 30 second flick through once!
cheers
Jules
John Allain wrote:
Yep, my memory is that they came round to take photos of stuff around a
year ago. It's certainly been out for quite a while. I think there was
talk of a second edition sometime, but I haven't heard anything about
that for a while.
How about this for a new book?
"Digital Retro :
The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer"
by Gordon Laing
Amazon.com informs me that it was published just three weeks ago.
Wonder if anyone here has seen it yet?
Are you sure that date is correct? I bought a copy
in a bookshop here about a year ago. A reviewer
says its set up as Amstrad to Zenith, with photos,
might be kind of fluffy.
It's mostly photos, yes. Not a great deal of technical
info. Sometimes doesn't even tell you which microprocessor
the computer runs on. Very nice photos, though, and some
of them taken at the Museum of Computing in Swindon.