Gordon Laing

If you are a little bit nostalgic from the eighties and early nineties personal computer history, this book is for you. An nice overview (visually rich) of the home computing history from 1975 until 1988 with simple text and some interesting comments. Very easy to read, typesetting is clear and consistent across this book. The small drawback is some mistake in the ordering of i/o interface on some computers... but a very good book for all the computer geeks around. An excellent gift... show more (thanks Vincent ;-). show less

This is a perfect photography book for learning, inspiration, and ideas. The concept is a full page photograph and a facing page with all of the details of the photo setup, the how and the why. Many of the pages also show an alternate composition. A delight to look at, read, and study.

I don't know if this book technically qualifies as a "coffee table book" but its certainly the coolest coffee table book I've ever picked up. Who can resist thumbing through pages of retro computers, dating from 1975 to 1988? Looking at the earliest portable computers, all kinds of built-in monitors, handheld controllers? The only units from this book that I ever owned myself (both given to me by people who were finished with them) was the Commodore 64 and the old Apple Macintosh, so its show more neat to look through all the others. show less