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andrel wrote:
> FYI we are talking about the Apple II without which the whole concept of
> a personal computer that anyone could buy would not have existed. OK
> another computer would have done it a few years later, but that is not
> the point.
OOC, when did this happen? I have a sneaking suspicion it might have
been before I was born...
> It feels a bit like someone working with genetic material everyday and
> then say: 'Mendel, never heard of that guy, or was it a girl?'.
Still not seeing why it's important for such a person to have heard of
Mendel...
I mean, hell, I use electricity every single day. I have *no clue* who
figured out that it exists though... why is that a problem?
> Anyway,
> if we compiled a list of entertaining books about the history of
> computers and surrounding science is there any change you'd read them?
Um... I'm going to walk round the Science Museum tomorrow? Does that count?
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