The Computers That Made Britain: The Home Computer Revolution of the 1980s - Hardcover

Danton, Tim

 
9781912047857: The Computers That Made Britain: The Home Computer Revolution of the 1980s
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1912047853 ISBN 13: 9781912047857
Verlag: Raspberry Pi Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The home computer boom of the 1980s brought with it now-iconic machines such as the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Commodore 64. Those machines would inspire a generation and foster the creation of a booming British software industry that continues to this day.

With the help of hefty government discounts, computers worked their way into primary and secondary schools around the country. Millions more computers appeared in living rooms and bedrooms around the country. For once, Britain was ahead of the world, helping to create a golden generation of British programmers.

The Computers That Made Britain tells the story of 19 of those computers, and what happened behind the scenes. This book is as much a story about each computer's creation as it is about the people that created them.

Through dozens of interviews with the people who were there, discover the tales of missed deadlines, technical faults, business interference, and the unheralded geniuses who brought to the UK everything from the Dragon 32 and ZX81, to the Amstrad CPC 464 and Commodore Amiga. This book closes with the story of the Acorn Archimedes, which introduced the revolutionary ARM processor that powers smart watches, laptops, routers, mobile phones, and the Raspberry Pi to this day.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Danton is author of The Computers That Made Britain, a Raspberry Pi book, and editor-in-chief of the British technology magazine PC Pro. He has also helped to launch several technology websites, most recently TechFinitive.com, where he is a senior editor.

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Verlag
Raspberry Pi Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1912047853
ISBN 13 
9781912047857
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Anzahl der Seiten
296
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