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Keep in mind the ZX Range? Ever try programming with its stretchy rubber secrets? Have you marvel at the immense galaxies of Top notch on the BBC Micro or lose yourself in the surreal caverns of Manic Miner on the ZX Range? For anyone who had been a youngster in the 1980s, these iconic computer brands are the stuff of tale. In Electronic Dreams, Tom Low fat tells the story of how personal computers invaded British isles homes for the very first time, as people set aside their concerns of electronic brains and Big Brother and embraced the sweetness technology of the 1980s. This book charts the annals of the surge and fall of the home computer, the category of futuristic and quirky machines that had taken processing from the world of technology and technology fiction to being truly a user-friendly home technology. It is an account of unexpected consequences, when the machines that parents bought to help their kids with homework ended up having a baby to the video games industry, and of unrealized ambitions, like the ahead-of-its-time Prestel network that first place the British isles home online but failed to change the world. Finally, it's the report of individuals who made the growth happen, the inventors and business people, like Clive Sinclair and Alan Glucose, seeking new market segments, bedroom programmers and computer hackers and the millions of day-to-day folk who bought in to the electronic fantasy and let the computer into their lives.
