[Coco] [Color Computer] Fwd: Full text of Digital Deli on the Web

[Neil Morrison]

The folks at AtariArchives.org are thrilled to announce that the full
text of
the classic computer book Digital Deli is now available on the Web.
Published
in 1984 and subtitled "The Comprehensive, User-Lovable Menu of
Computer Lore,
Culture, Lifestyles and Fancy," Digital Deli offers a unique
perspective on
computers and their users in the golden age of microcomputing.

It is available at http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/

The book was written by more than 100 contributors and edited by
Steve Ditlea.
Contributors include computing pioneers Ralph Baer, Steve
Wozniak, Nolan Bushnell, Robert Moog, Bill Gates, and Mitch Kapor, in
addition to well-known writers and pundits, such as Stan Veit, Steven
Levy, Howard Rheingold, and Esther Dyson.

In it, you can read:

   - how Paul Lutus wrote the Apple Writer word processor in a tiny,
secluded Oregon cabin
   - how Ken Uston used the first practical computer to count cards
in a Las
Vegas casino
   - about the development of RACTER, early software that would
synthesize
prose
   - about Blaise Pascal, Ada Lovelace, and other great "computer
eccentrics"
   - about John Draper and other pioneering phone phreaks
   - about online etiquette circa 1984
   - ...and much more

"I've always been struck by how much of the history of technology is
missing
from the Net. It's as if anything predating the World Wide Web's
creation
simply didn't exist," Steve Ditlea, editor of the book, said. "Thanks
to
atariarchives.org anyone curious about the state of personal
computing circa
1984 can now access a book that has been out of print for nearly two
decades."

This is the 21st classic computing book to be made available at
AtariArchives.org. The site launched in April 2000 with the goal of
digitally
preserving books, software, and other information about classic
computers.
-- 
Kevin Savetz - http://www.savetz.com/contact/
Curator of Classic Computer Magazine Archive - www.atarimagazines.com
& Atariarchives.org                          - www.atariarchives.org
Moderator of news:comp.sys.atari.announce    - Atari computer news


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