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About Delete: A Design History Of Computer Vapourware
Product Description While most historical accounts of the development of computer design focus on specific computers or manufacturers, examining the success stories of hardware and operating systems, Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware creates a completely new narrative by investigating the machines that didn't make it. Fascinating, full-colour images of computer designs, many of them previously unpublished, are accompanied by the hitherto untold stories of their planning and development, the pitfalls and successes in their creation, the market and competition at the time and the reasons why they never finally appeared for sale. Appealing both to a broad audience and to a more specialist one of designers and computer historians, Delete, with its unique collection of prototypes that never made it to the market, depicts a technological world that might have been. Review “Many books promise to straddle the line between trade and academic publication, but few deliver. Delete is a refreshing exception, written with great clarity, depth, and expertise, that will appeal to academic and enthusiast audiences alike. The color photographs and scans alone serve as an excellent visual resource for hardware designers, collectors, and historians. But in combination with their development backstories, they produce one of the more engaging computer history texts in print.” –Rachel Simone Weil, Design and Culture About the Author Paul Atkinson is Professor of Design and Design History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is associate editor of The Design Journal and author of Computer.
