Few people have heard of it, yet many consider John Blankenbaker's KENBAK-1 to be the first commercial personal computer.
Steampunk Magazine: Free Download
By James Grahame
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness have unleashed this mag under a Creative Commons license. You can get your hands on the dead tree version for $3 plus postage, or download it for free:
"Before the age of homogenization and micro-machinery, before the
tyrannous efficiency of internal combustion and the domestication of
electricity, lived beautiful, monstrous machines that lived and
breathed and exploded unexpectedly at inconvenient moments.
It was a
time where art and craft were united, where unique wonders were
invented and forgotten, and punks roamed the streets, living in squats
and fighting against despotic governance through wit, will and wile. Even if we had to make it all up."
