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 inevitable.
For such a simple question, this has become a surprisingly
complicated topic.
Selected sources:
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/10/102702231-05-01-acc.pdf
- Lee Felsenstein, oral history at CHM
http://www.leefelsenstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/I_Designed_the_Sol.pdf
- Article about the Sol-20's design process
http://www.leefelsenstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Felsenstein-Tabloid-BW.pdf
- Tom Swift Lives!
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