Core Memory: Vintage Computer Love
Copy & paste from pingmag.jp
Written by Verena
Now here’s a high end coffee table book to appeal to hipsters and geeks alike. The Core Memory – A Visual Survey Of Vintage Computers photo book, published in Japan by O’Reilly, depicts the exteriors and innards of a mainframe.
American photographer Mark Richards and author John Alderman show the visual beauty of seventy years of history, from steampunk-like screws to orderly wire chaos. We get to feel nostalgic seeing machines ranging from supercomputers and defense systems bearing acronyms such as SAGE, ILLIAC, ENIAC to the Kitchen Computer.
For the launch of the exquisite Japanese edition (sporting a different cover), Mark and John came to Tokyo. PingMag had a long chat with them in the storage room of a major department store in Shinjuku – surrounded by computers and fax machines. What an appropriate setting!
