This is a book of photographs and text profiling 35 machines from the Computer History Museum in California. Highlighting some of the most important and eccentric machines in the museum's collection - the largest in the world - "Core Memory" is a photographic tour of some highlights and curious detours in the history of computing. The computers themselves are the story: artifacts from earlier stages of a culture that races forward at such speed that it risks forgetting its past. Included here are such historically important machines as the Eniac, Johnniac, Cray 1-3, Apple I and II, and many more.
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Images are superb. The author photographer clearly has a "thing" for backplanes and beautifully laced wiring looms. Text could do with some editing, and is more trivia than solid history. Still, there are plenty of computer history books that do not belong on the coffee table. This one does. It will join my (small) collection of techo pornography, along with "The Illustrated Longitude".
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