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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