# Home Computers

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- Authors: [Alex Wiltshire](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-wiltshire), [John Short](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-short)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2020-04-16

## Description

As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design and techno-utopianism of an era in the not-so-distant past.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

## Editions

### Home Computers

- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6204-401-1
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2020-05-19
- Language: en_US

### Home Computers

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0002-216-0
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2020-04-16
- Language: en_GB