Gordon Laing

If you are a little bit nostalgic from the eighties and early nineties personal computer history, this book is for you. An nice overview (visually rich) of the home computing history from 1975 until 1988 with simple text and some interesting comments. Very easy to read, typesetting is clear and consistent across this book. The small drawback is some mistake in the ordering of i/o interface on some computers... but a very good book for all the computer geeks around. An excellent gift... (thanks Vincent ;-).… (mere)

I don't know if this book technically qualifies as a "coffee table book" but its certainly the coolest coffee table book I've ever picked up. Who can resist thumbing through pages of retro computers, dating from 1975 to 1988? Looking at the earliest portable computers, all kinds of built-in monitors, handheld controllers? The only units from this book that I ever owned myself (both given to me by people who were finished with them) was the Commodore 64 and the old Apple Macintosh, so its neat to look through all the others.… (mere)