Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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Fascinating, full-colour images of computer designs, many of them previously unpublished, are accompanied by the hitherto untold stories of their planning and development, the pitfalls and successes in their creation, the market and competition at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.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Release: October 24, 2013

ISBN: 0857853473

ISBN 13: 9780857853479

Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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Fascinating, full-colour images of computer designs, many of them previously unpublished, are accompanied by the hitherto untold stories of their planning and development, the pitfalls and successes in their creation, the market and competition at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.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Release: October 24, 2013

ISBN: 0857853473

ISBN 13: 9780857853479

More books from Paul Atkinson

Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Programming

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Computer

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Ethnography: Principles in Practice

3.2/5 ( ratings)

The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Plentiful: The Big Book of Buddha Food

The Canadian Justice System

Key Themes in Qualitative Research: Continuities and Changes

The Lovejoy Trail

Prospects for the National Health

Undercover Killers at the BBC: Faking crimes for secret cameras ended in torture and murder

Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange

Physical Chemistry, Volume 2

Occupational Socialization and Working Lives (1994) (Routledge Revivals)

Emergency Medicine

Writing Ethnographically (Super Quick Skills)

The Clinical Experience, Second edition (1997): The Construction and Reconstrucion of Medical Reality (Routledge Revivals)

Seeing Through Different Eyes: A Handbook of Hope for Parents Who Need Extra Skills

Sociological Readings and Re-readings (1996) (Routledge Revivals)

Rate this book!

Write a review?