Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer

by Tom Lean

Book Overview

Computers invaded British homes for the first time in the early 1980s, with a wave of cheap, futuristic microcomputers that allowed millions of people to discover for themselves the world of computing. In those heady early days of computing, Britannia very much ruled the digital waves. Electronic Dreams looks back at how Britain embraced the home computer, and at the people who drove the boom: entrepreneurs such as Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar seeking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472918339
• ISBN13: 9781472918338
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury SIGMA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.6"