Aug 22, 2021
This
concludes my series on the distinctive shape of early home
computers. In this episode we finally cover the Sol-20 itself, the
first system on the market to be shaped like a wedge. More
generally, we try to figure out if the Sol-20 was the progenitor of
hundreds of machines that followed, or if the wedge
was...
Aug 8, 2021
Early
home microcomputers have a very distinctive shape to them. From the
Apple II and the ZX Spectrum, to the Commodore 64 and the Amiga,
wedged were the order of the day. I've always wondered why that
shape became so popular, and where it came from. Today we start a
deep dive into that question, slowly tracing the...
