What makes a PC? Thoughts on computing platforms, standards, and compatibility

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 88-89

  Sumner, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apple computers; Compatibility; History; IBM computers; Macintosh; Microcomputing; Operating systems (computers); PC; Personal computing; Standards

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; STANDARDS;

COMPUTING PLATFORM; MACHINE LEVEL; ONLINE COMMUNICATION;

PERSONAL COMPUTING;

EID: 34548269960     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2007.30     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Most notably through the thinly veiled totalitarian references in the iconic Macintosh launch advertisement (1984). More subtly, "Think Different" (1997-2002) plays on IBM's venerable corporate motto "THINK!"
2. The legal/technical acrobatics of the reverse-engineering process involved are elegantly summarized in P. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 277-280.
3. For instance: G. Laing, Digital Retro, Ilex, 2004, pp. 6-7, 186.
4. M. Campbell-Kelly and W. Aspray, Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Westview, 2004, pp. 121-122.
5. See for instance the threefold division of "Low cost," "Medium-priced," and "Business" in H. Varley and I. Graham, The Personal Computer Handbook, Pan, 1983, pp. 182-187.
6. B. Bagnall, On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore Variant, 2005.
7. Ibid., p. 152;
8. L. Haddon, "The Home Computer: The Making of a Consumer Electronic," Science as Culture, vol. 2, 1988, pp. 7-51.