Steven Poole

Ruling the digital waves

Tom Lean’s Electronic Dreams reminds us how Britain once led the field in computer science, producing systems more revolutionary than the Apple Mac

  • Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer

    Tom Lean

    Bloomsbury Sigma, pp. 287

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