Notes

1. Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray. Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Basic Books, 1996).

2. Paul E. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003).

3. Otto Friedrich, "Machine of the Year, The Computer Move In," Time (1983 Jan 3). Also available online at http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Time.MOTY.1982.html (Computer Science Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, accessed 2004 Nov 26).

Bibliography

"Welcome to the Obsolete Technology Website," http://oldcomputers.net/index.html (oldcomputers.net, accessed 2004 Nov 26). These pages have a timeline from 1971-1989 and information on several dozen personal computers from that period.