- Microcomputers, History, Design and construction, Micro-ordinateurs
The late Seventies to the early Nineties was a wholly unique period in the history of computing. Long before Microsoft and Intel ruled the PC world, a multitude of often quaint home computers were battling for supremacy in a melting pot that would shape the IT industry for years to come.
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Nostalgic, classical in form, plot-driven and resolved.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Gordon Laing
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Ilex, Sybex
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781904705390
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“The period between the mid-Seventies and the late Eighties was completely unique in the history of computing.”
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