Paper as History Logging medium: new Book

[John Honniball]

John Allain wrote:
> How about this for a new book?
> 
> "Digital Retro :
>  The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer"
>     by Gordon Laing    
> 
> Amazon.com informs me that it was published just three weeks ago.
> Wonder if anyone here has seen it yet?

Are you sure that date is correct?  I bought a copy
in a bookshop here about a year ago.

> A reviewer says its set up as Amstrad to Zenith, with photos,
>    might be kind of fluffy.

It's mostly photos, yes.  Not a great deal of technical
info.  Sometimes doesn't even tell you which microprocessor
the computer runs on.  Very nice photos, though, and some
of them taken at the Museum of Computing in Swindon.

-- 
John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk