Owning Your Home Computer: The Complete Illustrated Guide

So, do you think today's computing landscape of desktops, laptops, notebooks, smart phones, tablet computers, and netbooks - among other designations - is confusing? Imagine a computing landscape with no particular point of reference outside of mainframes and terminals. That's exactly what it was like in the world of personal computing from the 1980's. The terms "laptop" and "notebook" were still several years away, with "portable" computers describing those systems you carried about like an overstuffed suitcase and ran off of AC power (like the Osborne 1 [1981], Compaq Portable [1983], or the Commodore SX-64 [1984]), a form factor many of us more accurately refer to today as "transportable" computers. Perry's pioneering work on owning a home computer, appeared prior to the release of such models, it was a technological breakthrough in its own right. First edition in a dust-jacket that has some creases and closed tears, protected in removable, plastic transparency.