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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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    -Libertarian secular transhumanist