Congrats!!! On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
"IEEE Annals of the History of Computing" is the top academic journal covering computer history. The current issue has a review of my book, "Abacus to smartphone: The evolution of mobile and portable computers". The reviewer was fair in observing what I did well and what I could have done better. She concluded that it's an "accessible read ... recommended for historians of all stripes or those with an interest in wide-ranging narratives of computer technology". That was exactly my goal when I started researching it more than a decade ago: to make the book accessible to the public yet also credible to professional historians. Goal achieved! Happy camper tonight.
I emailed the journal editor to ask about their rules for quoting/reprinting -- I do not intend to break them. Nobody should take it upon themselves to host the PDF.
IEEE members can read it here: https://www.computer.org/…/an/2017/02/man2017020009-abs.html
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