Micromania: Whole Truth About Home Computers [Paperback]

Charles Platt (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Gollancz (March 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 057503419X
• ISBN-13: 978-0575034198
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,842,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Charles Platt became interested in computers when he acquired an Ohio Scientific C4P in 1979. After writing and selling software by mail order, he taught classes in BASIC programming, MS-DOS, and subsequently Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. He wrote five computer books during the 1980s.

He has also written science fiction novels such as The Silicon Man (published by Wired books) and Protektor (from Avon Books). He stopped writing science fiction when he started contributing to Wired magazine in 1993, and became one of its three senior writers a couple of years later.

Charles began contributing to Make magazine in its third issue and is currently a contributing editor. Make: Electronics is his first book for Make Books. Currently he is designing and building prototypes of medical equipment in his workshop in a northern Arizona wilderness area.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful introduction to computers, December 15, 2011

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This review is from: Micromania: Whole Truth About Home Computers (Paperback)

I picked up this book from a roadside stall in 1988 even though I knew about computers. I browsed through the first few pages and I was hooked. I think this was the British edition written with David Langford. Very witty, it gives a complete moron great insights into computers. And then there is a chapter that describes the more popular models (prevalent in 1984) which still gives me that nostalgic feeling. I still have that copy (yellowed as its been printed on cheap paper), and I refuse to throw it away!