Tom Lean

Electronic Dreams

How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The story of how computers invaded the homes and cultural life of 1980s Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Sigma / Bloomsbury Trade
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 144mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781472918338
• ISBN-10: 1472918339
• Artikelnr.: 42802897

Autorenporträt

Tom Lean

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1: Electronic Brains2: Hobbyists Create Microcomputers3: Computers for the Man in the Street4: Computer Literacy5: The Boom6: Two Information Revolutions That Weren't7: The Maturing of the Computer Game8: The Unmaking of the MicroEpilogue: Back to the Future?Further ReadingPrices and Other NumbersAcknowledgementsIndex

Rezensionen

Lean has spoken to all the major players, as well as lesser-known ones, and packed his pages with nuggety info to write the first good book on the subject. Esquire