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30th Anniversary of the Microcomputer

Posted by michael on from the not-even-a-real-country-anyway dept.

FreezerJam writes "The Toronto Star is running an article on the 30th anniversary of the launch of the MCM/70, the first personal computer, complete with tape drive and APL programming environment. For those of you checking your timeline, this is over a year before the article on the Altair 8800 was published. Microcomputers? Blame Canada!" There's also a story in the Globe and Mail.

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  1. How many years has decimal infected computers? by Thinkit3 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Decimal just has to go. It complicates everything, especially floating point. What is simpler...more elegant, a routine to print out the decimal format of a number, or the hexadecimal format?

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  2. Re:Undeserved recognition by mrtroy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or I could buy a gun and shoot myself. A much better way to go.

    Or, rather, drown myself. A much better way to go.

    Or hire some people to torture me, while keeping me alive on life support, for the remaining years of my life, and beyond my natural lifespan. A much better way to go.

    Or I could sell my soul to the devil. Errr...thats the same as your post....nevermind.

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