{"product_id":"home-computers-by-alex-wiltshire-9780500022160","title":"Home Computers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome Computers\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the quirky and characterful beginnings of a commercial product that would come to unite the globe: the personal computer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design, and techno-utopianism of an era in the not-so-distant past. Conceived as a visual sourcebook of the most popular, most powerful, and most idiosyncratic computers to grace our workspaces, this timely publication offers a reflection on how far we have come and a nostalgic look at a time when digital worlds could be contained in a box and turned off, rather than ever-present in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome Computers\u003c\/i\u003e opens with a scene-setting retrospective by computer and gaming writer Alex Wiltshire. The book's heart is a series of specially commissioned photographs that capture details of switches and early user-interface design, letterforms and logos, and the quirks that set one computer off from another. Images are complemented by a potted history of each device, the inventors or personalities behind it, and its innovations and influences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46816877576428,"sku":"9780500022160","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/42463482366.jpg?v=1757859339","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/home-computers-by-alex-wiltshire-9780500022160","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}