Digital Retro
by Gordon Laing · first published 2004
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The late Seventies to the early Nineties was a wholly unique period in the history of computing. Long before Microsoft and Intel ruled the PC world, a multitude of often quaint home computers were battling for supremacy in a melting pot that would shape the IT industry for years to come. Products from established electronics giants clashed with machines which often appeared to have been knocked together in a backyard shed by an eccentric man from Cambridgeshire. Plenty actually were. Compatibility? Forget it! Each of these computers was its own machine and had no intention of talking to amyth
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Extremely relevant book, https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Retro-Evolution-Personal-Comp... (the refcode is from the authors site, https://www.cameralabs.com/digitalretro/ ) The interior of the book is much more beautiful than the cover, and sadly Amazon's look inside…
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on “Ask HN: Books on Computer History” ↗I remember reading about MSX in Creative Computing magazine, there's also 4 pages devoted to it in the book Digital Retro. In addition to the reasons listed here I'd say that what killed MSX is what killed everything else back then, the rise of the PC compatibles. In the early 80's there were "personal computers" based…
on “Whatever Happened to MSX Computers?” ↗