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Originally Posted by Dapper Dan  The year I was born, state of the art computers looked like this... LINK  |
You surprised me. I thought your link was going to show me something like
this. Or a picture of the Mark II with an insert of
this .
Just kidding, Dan.
The '50's were a strange time for computing. A lot of myths & misconceptions were generated, no thanks to Hollywood. But it was also a magical time. So many things were being done for the first time. I was born 4 years earlier; the year IBM released it's first commercial electronic computer, the
701. That event is eclipsed in most peoples minds by the
birth of the 'vette, though.
Of course a few other minor events happened that year. Stalin died, Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne, the cure for polio was released, Mt Everest was finally conquered, the first James Bond novel was published, and an upstart little girlie magazine named Playboy released it's first issue.
A lot more happened too, but who cares. Aside from a few drug-fueled events in the 60's, nothing much happened after that, 'til punk rock arrived in the '70's. Western civilization collapsed the following year. After that our interest shifted to pc's and the rest is history. Or something like that.
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