Excerpt from Obelisk II, 1983 Already it controls family finances, stores records and recipes, teaches kids to read, write, multiply and divide and entertains its users. According to Clive Smith, a senior analyst for the Boston-based market ing research firm Yankee Group, 1982 personal home computers sales reached 2 million units, compared to computers sold the previous year and in 1981. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.