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I read somewhere that when Gibson wrote Neuromancer he had never owned a computer and so still had some lofty ideals of what they were capable of. When he final
by damian2000 14y ago
I read somewhere that when Gibson wrote Neuromancer he had never owned a computer and so still had some lofty ideals of what they were capable of. When he finally got a Macintosh, the mechanical spinning and whirring of the floppy during boot disappointed him.
- ilamont 14y agoBut it was interesting that he saw them as being portable "decks," which sounded like laptops with sophisticated graphics capabilities. I believe he wrote this in the early 80s, when portable computers were "luggables" and had little more than green or amber screens that were meant for displaying text: http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/l/luggable.htm http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/l/luggable.htm
- damian2000 14y agoYeah I was also interested to hear his 'console cowboy' for what we'd now call a hacker. I was reading one of his newer books called Pattern Recognition... it came out well before the iPad, and yet in it he's describing an 'iBook' tablet computer device as more widely used than the laptop.
- adrianhoward 14y agoHeh. He was talking about http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook :-) iBook was a type of Apple laptop during the period PR is set.