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The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal by Laine Nooney (English) Har
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- Objectstaat
- ISBN-13
- 9780226816524
- Book Title
- The Apple II Age
- ISBN
- 9780226816524
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Apple II Age : How the Computer Became Personal
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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An engrossing origin story for the personal computer--showing how the Apple II's software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists' plaything to essential home appliance. Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II. Designed by the brilliant engineer Steve Wozniak and hustled into the marketplace by his Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, the Apple II became one of the most prominent personal computers of this dawning industry. The Apple II was a versatile piece of hardware, but its most compelling story isn't found in the feat of its engineering, the personalities of Apple's founders, or the way it set the stage for the company's multibillion-dollar future. Instead, historian Laine Nooney shows, what made the Apple II iconic was its software . In software, we discover the material reasons people bought computers. Not to hack, but to play. Not to code, but to calculate. Not to program, but to print. The story of personal computing in the United States is not about the evolution of hackers--it's about the rise of everyday users. Recounting a constellation of software creation stories, Nooney offers a new understanding of how the hobbyists' microcomputers of the 1970s became the personal computer we know today. From iconic software products like VisiCalc and The Print Shop to historic games like Mystery House and Snooper Troops to long-forgotten disk-cracking utilities, The Apple II Age offers an unprecedented look at the people, the industry, and the money that built the microcomputing milieu--and why so much of it converged around the pioneering Apple II.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226816524
ISBN-13
9780226816524
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Apple II Age : How the Computer Became Personal
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qa76.8.A66n66 2023
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The Apple II Age is an enjoyable and educational history book from a writer who has no intention to worship at the feet of the people who built the early computer industry and no desire to repeat apocryphal stories of how computers entered our homes and lives. With original research that questions and clarifies popular, long-held assumptions and lore, Nooney has produced a realistic, factual examination that provides unique insight into the era of the Apple II., In these pages I found the story of my own coming of age with an Apple II, but it is not a nostalgic or sentimental story about boys and their toys. Instead, the monochrome green glow of the CRT is rendered prismatic through Nooney's rigorous scholarship, painstaking archival research, and always bracing and authentic prose., Nooney's book tracks the pivotal years of the shift toward personal computing, epitomized by the Apple II and sped along by consumer software. . . . [It] tells the story of how computers became irrevocably personal, but what's most striking, revisiting the history of the Apple II, is how much less personalizable our machines have become., A highly original and insightful book that makes an enormous contribution. Nooney demonstrates how software transformed microcomputing from an arcane hobby into a mass consumer product., Nooney complicates and enriches the men-in-garages Silicon Valley mythology we all know by drawing together a rich cast of software visionaries whose creative and entrepreneurial talents gave life to the machine. A magisterial history and a gift to all curious technophiles., Nooney makes the heartfelt case that the Apple II's most compelling story 'isn't found in the feat of its engineering,' or in the personalities of Wozniak and Jobs, 'or the way it set the stage for the company's multibillion-dollar future.' Instead, it's about all those brave and curious people, the users, who came 'Not to hack, but to play . . . Not to program, but to print... The story of personal computing in the United States is not about the evolution of hackers -- it's about the rise of everyday users.', The Apple II Age is a joy to read and an extraordinary achievement in computer history. A rigorous thinker and a bright and witty writer, Nooney offers a compelling account of the initial attempts to make computers inviting to the public. The Apple II Age , like the old microcomputer itself, is bound to intrigue both experts and newcomers to the subject.
Table of Content
Introduction 1 Prehistories of the Personal 2 Cultivating the Apple II 3 Business: VisiCalc 4 Games: Mystery House 5 Utilities: Locksmith 6 Home: The Print Shop 7 Education: Snooper Troops Inconclusions Epilogue: On the Consignment Floor Acknowledgments A Note on Archives and Sources Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2023
Topic
Operating Systems / Apple (Mac OS & iOS), General, History
Lccn
2022-045947
Dewey Decimal
005.265
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Mathematics
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