Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers - Hardcover

Alderman, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811854426 ISBN 13: 9780811854429

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2007

Synopsis

Presents photographs and text profiling 35 machines from the Computer History Museum in California. This work highlights some of the most important and eccentric machines in the museum's collection - the largest in the world. It includes historically important machines such as: the Eniac, Johnniac, Cray 1-3, Apple I and II, and more.

About this title

Synopsis:

This is a book of photographs and text profiling 35 machines from the Computer History Museum in California. Highlighting some of the most important and eccentric machines in the museum's collection - the largest in the world - "Core Memory" is a photographic tour of some highlights and curious detours in the history of computing. The computers themselves are the story: artifacts from earlier stages of a culture that races forward at such speed that it risks forgetting its past. Included here are such historically important machines as the Eniac, Johnniac, Cray 1-3, Apple I and II, and many more.

About the Author:

Mark Richards's work has been featured in numerous publications. He lives in Mill Valley, California. John Alderman, author of Sonic Boom, lives in San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0811854426
• ISBN 13: 9780811854429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160