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Full text of Digital Deli on the Web

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
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