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How Computers Work... in 1971

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doomed-to-repeat-ourselves dept.

prostoalex writes "A recent submission to my free tech books site included a title that I thought many Slashdotters would enjoy. How It Works: The Computer (published 1971 and re-published 1979) is an exciting look into this new thing called computer. The site presents the scanned pages of 1971 and 1979 editions, and you can see how the page on computer code changes over 8 years from punchcards exclusively to magnetic tapes."

5 of 353 comments (clear)

  1. Careful... by ideatrack · · Score: 5, Funny

    you'll have SCO on your ass, you're distributing their code.

  2. Sweet by hcob$ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now let me go get my soldering iron, a trained monkey and a monitor I can get a tan from and we got it made. The monkey is for fetching stuff and "debugging" btw..... (hands monkey a hammer)

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    Cliff Claven
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  3. just a theory, but ... by lottameez · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think CmdrTaco is showing us the instruction booklet for the /. webserver

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    Yeah? Well I think you're overrated too.
  4. Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My first thought when I saw this picture was:

    "Honey, what's this magnetic tape labelled 'pr0n'?"

  5. Re:Is this... by plover · · Score: 5, Funny
    I think it's more like "News for Old Nerds. Stuff that Used to Matter."

    Anyway, the big advantage of this book is that it may show some of you kids the kind of drivel we had to learn from back then. :-)

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    John