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Do You Compute? Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug, 1950-1999

• Curated • ISBN 9780991619825

Do You Compute? Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug, 1950-1999 cover

Do You Compute? Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug, 1950-1999

• Curated • ISBN-13 9780991619825

ISBN-10 Not provided • 2019 • 1st Edition

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ISBN 9780991619825 • Completeness 96

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Description

Do You Compute? is a broad survey featuring the very best of computer advertising in the 20th century By Ryan Mungia & Steven Heller Before Alexa and the iPhone, there was a large and unwieldy mainframe computer. In the postwar 1950s, computers were mostly used for aerospace and accounting purposes.

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Publisher: Curated
Hardcover1st Edition2019
Pages: 240Language: EnglishPaper finish: Matte

Catalog notes

Contributor: Ryan Mungia & Steven Heller Before Alexa and the iPhoneContributor: there was a large and unwieldy mainframe computerDesigner: Ryan Mungia Cover design by John Zabawa Co-published by Hat

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Category: 1980s CultureCategory: Advertising HistoryCategory: Culture And TheoryCategory: Graphic DesignCategory: Graphic Design HistoryCategory: PublicationCategory: Technology And SocietyCategory: Visual CommunicationInfluenced by: Andy WarholInfluenced by: Marshall McLuhanInfluenced: Contemporary Graphic DesignersInfluenced: Advertising ProfessionalsCornerstone of: Contemporary Graphic Design Publications

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