The Electronic Cottage: Everyday Living With Your Personal Computers in the 1980's
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000NXFOSM |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 341 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Great In Its Time J. Reynolds During the decade in which computer use in the USA really blossomed, the 1980s, this was the only book I read on the subject which clearly explained (using an analogy of buckets being filled with water) how the binary (on / off) concept functioned, and was then built-upon to result in functional computing capacity.All the other books on the subject would tell you about "bits," and how Base 2 was used in an of / off fashion in a grid and would then jump to higher functionality -- which was equivalent to being shown a brick, followed by a photo of a completed house.
Great fun to look back on the first decade of home computing, but also good solid info on how to do bacic computer language and tasks.. A computer collector's dream find - sections on "Welcome to the Age of Logic," "Breaking the Language Barrier," "How Machines Make Decisions," "Games, Hypergames and Metagames," Computing as a Seventh Sense," Chores and Drugery - the Computer as Slave," and much more