Personal Computing

Download or read book Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer written by Stan Veit and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of the personal computer from Altair to the IBM PC revolution. Written by computer legend Stan Veit, who turned Computer Shopper into the world's largest computer magazine.

Download or read book Squeak written by Mark Guzdial and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains: Tutorials -- Demos -- Links to related Web pages -- Squeak version 2.9 virtual image.

Download or read book Dictionary of Personal Computing and the Internet written by S. M. H. Collin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dictionary, Simon Collin, the author of various best-selling guides for Microsoft Press, removes the mysteries of PC/Internet language with concise, clearly-written entries understandable to readers at all levels of expertise. More than 1,600 terms are defined in theDictionary of Personal Computing and the Internet, including those related to electronic mail (e-mail), newsgroups, Web-page design, Internet technology, and PC hardware and software.

Download or read book Bootstrapping written by Thierry Bardini and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tells the story of Douglas Engelbart's revolutionary vision, reaching beyond conventional histories of Silicon Valley to probe the ideology that shaped some of the basic ingredients of contemporary life.

Download or read book Personal Computing written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What the Dormouse Said written by John Markoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This makes entertaining reading. Many accounts of the birth of personal computing have been written, but this is the first close look at the drug habits of the earliest pioneers.” —New York Times Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It’s a brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and ’70s, where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a means for freeing minds and information. In these pages one encounters Ken Kesey and the phone hacker Cap’n Crunch, est and LSD, The Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Lab. What the Dormouse Said is a poignant, funny, and inspiring book by one of the smartest technology writers around.

Download or read book A People’s History of Computing in the United States written by Joy Lisi Rankin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism. The invention of the personal computer liberated users from corporate mainframes and brought computing into homes. But throughout the 1960s and 1970s a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Their networks were centered in New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Illinois, but they connected far-flung users. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto. By imagining computing as an interactive commons, the early denizens of the digital realm seeded today’s debate about whether the internet should be a public utility and laid the groundwork for the concept of net neutrality. Rankin offers a radical precedent for a more democratic digital culture, and new models for the next generation of activists, educators, coders, and makers.