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Old 30th August 2012 | 23:28
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First PC from 1965

The incredible story of the first PC, from 1965

If this has been posted before,let me know and I'll bin it
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Old 31st August 2012 | 01:29
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Very cool

article to read TWT. Was there anything that jumped out at you to choose this particular article?

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Old 31st August 2012 | 03:09
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I Remember the excitement I had when I got my first personal computer
[interesting read BTW...we've come very far!]




edit I remember the old Sperry's, Comadore 64's with DOS discs and the original Apples...

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Old 31st August 2012 | 03:14
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My brother sent me the link,he's a software engineer.He thought I might be interested.I was !
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What I found most amazing was NASA's use of it to launch Apollo...and I love the pictures of the world's fair I was born and lived sometime not far from there eventually return as an adult to live for two more years...
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Awesome TWT

Software engineering is a great field to be in nowadays... and yes we have come so far, and yet old technology is still awe inspiring.
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This was in the bucket from some time ago.

Did any of your very early PCs have a hard drive?


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