Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation, Hardcover Book, By: Alex Wiltshire

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 As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design and techno-utopianism of an era in the not-so-distant past.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.

• Books Author: Alex Wiltshire
• Number Of Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Books Category: التكنولوجيا و الكمبيوتر
• Book Format: Hardcover
• Books_ISBN: 050002216X
• Other Feature 2: Weight: 1,280 grams
• Other Feature 3: Size: 210 x 246 x 27 mm
• Publication Date: April 16, 2020