{"product_id":"home-computers-100-icons-that-defined-a-digital-generation-mit-press","title":"Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation (Mit Press)","description":"A celebration of the early years of the digital revolution, when computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk.\nToday, people carry powerful computers in our pockets and call them “phones.” A generation ago, people were amazed that the processing power of a mainframe computer could be contained in a beige box on a desk. This book is a celebration of those early home computers, with specially commissioned new photographs of 100 vintage computers and a generous selection of print advertising, product packaging, and instruction manuals. Readers can recapture the glory days of fondly remembered (or happily forgotten) machines including the Commodore 64, TRS-80, Apple Lisa, and Mattel Aquarius—traces of the techno-utopianism of the not-so-distant past.\nHome Computers showcases mass-market success stories, rarities, prototypes, one-offs, and never-before-seen specimens. The heart of the book is a series of artful photographs that capture idiosyncratic details of switches and plugs, early user-interface designs, logos, and labels. After a general scene-setting retrospective, the book proceeds computer by computer, with images of each device accompanied by a short history of the machine, its inventors, its innovations, and its influence. Readers who inhabit today's always-on, networked, inescapably connected world will be charmed by this visit to an era when the digital revolution could be powered down every evening.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0262044013\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0262044013.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Wiltshire, Alex|Short, John\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43332288413757,"sku":"BVV.0262044013.G","price":24.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0262044013-0.jpg?v=1783578204","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/home-computers-100-icons-that-defined-a-digital-generation-mit-press","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}