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My impressions

http://galexander.org/laptops/mac/impressions.html

In the PC world, the computers feel shallow because I understand a little bit of almost every layer. I am familiar with the hardware from a user perspective and also (somewhat) an

What made the PC, Mac, and Linux so great (or not)

http://toastytech.com/guis/macvspc.html

What made Personal Computers great The story of the "Personal Computer" started before the IBM PC. The earliest personal computers included machines such as the Altair, TRS-80, Co

The Nascom Home Page

http://www.nascomhomepage.com/#TheNascomRepository/pdf/Keys/pdf/Keys

on and I bought more computers but didn't stop using my CP/M Nascom 2/Gemini hybrid system until I bought my first PC (around 1994). However thanks to CP/M emulators and vnascom I

Seductions of Sim

http://www.princeton.edu/~starr/17star.html

low-cost multimedia computers, a new generation of "edutainment" software has finally begun to fulfill the long-touted promise of computers in education. Most of the new programs

UNIVAC Memories

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/

terminals or personal computers. Why? Because the only way to get your program into the computer was to punch it on cards, and as you discovered within seconds after sitting down
UNIVAC Memories

Gary Kildall

http://www.gaby.de/kildall.htm

for some of it: Microcomputers were a new field, ripe for rapid advances, and that's a situation that fits neatly into a collegial atmosphere in which information is openly shared
Gary Kildall and Collegial Entrepreneurship

OS/Forth

https://www.forth.org/svfig/osf.html

working storage. Apple Computers having a fast graphics display ability on the newly introduced MacIntosh needed some way to get that to a print device and chose PostScript as the

Turning on the World Wide Web - CNET News.com

https://www.swcs.com.au/kunz.htm

for accessing distant computers over the Internet and other computer networks, took to the new World Wide Web with alacrity. Ambitious computer geeks, followed by venture capitali


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