[vcf-midatlantic] Book review

[Evan Koblentz]

"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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