{"product_id":"home-computers","title":"Home Computers 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation \/anglais","description":"\u003cp\u003eA celebration of the early years of the digital revolution, when computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHome 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47639754899745,"sku":"9780500022160","price":49.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/9780500022160.jpg?v=1721890771","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/home-computers","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}