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Item Details
| Title:
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DELETE
A DESIGN HISTORY OF COMPUTER VAPOURWARE |
| By: |
Professor Paul Atkinson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£31.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857853473 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857853479 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
29 August, 2013 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Focussing not on the success stories but the failures, Delete: A History of Vapourware presents a fresh and original narrative of computer design. Using previously unpublished, full-colour images of computer hardware, Delete gives a fascinating insight into the hitherto lives of failed computer designs that never made it to the market. |
| Synopsis: |
While most historical accounts of the development of computer design focus on specific computers or manufacturers, examining the success stories of hardware and operating systems, Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware creates a completely new narrative by investigating the machines that didn't make it. Fascinating, full-colour images of computer designs, many of them previously unpublished, are accompanied by the hitherto untold stories of their planning and development, the pitfalls and successes in their creation, the market and competition at the time and the reasons why they never finally appeared for sale. Appealing both to a broad audience and to a more specialist one of designers and computer historians, Delete, with its unique collection of prototypes that never made it to the market, depicts a technological world that might have been. |
| Illustrations: |
150 colour illus |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Berg Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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