InfoAge Science Center / Xerox Palo Alto Research Center / IEEE History Center / Rochester Institute of Technology / /
IndustryTerm
personal computing history / personal computing culture / mid-1980s systems / hobby software / prototype hardware / software engineering methods / present free software movement / software viruses / industrial applications / founded software service / software crisis / informative wiki site / computing / shaped computing / /
MusicGroup
M.I. / /
OperatingSystem
Unix / Linux / Mac OSX / Macintosh / Amiga Unix / Amiga / Microsoft Windows / /
Organization
San Diego Super Computer Center / Rochester Institute of Technology / IEEE History Center / MIT / National Bureau of Standard / Homebrew Computer Club / InfoAge Science Center / IEEE Computer Society / /
Person
Evan Koblentz / Jimmy Maher / Dave Haynie / Nathan Ensmenger / Stephanie Shirley / Corinna Schlombs / Fran Berman / Jean Jennings / Elsie Shutt / Viva Amiga / Janet Abbate / Betty Snyder / Zachary Weddington / Andrew Russell / Anita Borg / / /
Position
Editor / Commodore / computer historian / assistant professor in the history department / engineer / author / director / /
ProvinceOrState
New Jersey / /
PublishedMedium
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing / /
RadioStation
Radio Shack / /
Technology
preemptive multitasking / Linux / Unix / operating systems / Amiga technology / /
Reviews Andrew Russell, Editor Jimmy Maher, The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga, MIT Press, 2012, 344 pp. Historians of computing, when asked which 1980s