Core Memory

Photographer Mark Richards has just co-authored Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers. As the subtitle suggests, it’s a book of photographs of old, pre-microcomputer computer hardware. His personal site has some samples of his work. It’s a Flash-based site, so I can’t give a direct link: just click on the Index button at the bottom left, then select ‘Book: Core Memory’ and enjoy.

There’s some truly gorgeous imagery there, a nice reminder of the era before a ‘computer’ was a circuit board with a few microchips and a single, neatly folded ribbon cable connecting the hard disk and CD drive to the motherboard. If there’s one thing there’s no shortage of in Richards’ work, it’s cables.

I’m going to have to watch out for the book when it shows up in bookshops over here next month. Eye candy plus nostalgia: what’s not to like?

[Via Scrubbles.net]