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_at_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#
>
> >From the review: "If you look at todayıs boring beige boxes, or the sleek
> design of the Mac, itıs 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
>
>
>
>
>
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