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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."

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  1. first post yipee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yipeee!

  2. Busted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Way to violate copyright, copyright violator.

  3. How Slashdot Works... in FireFox. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It doesn't.

    Really, can we sort this out already? Much as I like hitting refresh over and over and then clicking back and trying the link again...

  4. Re:How to tell if you are a linux fanatic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    troll. *plonk*

  5. Re:How to tell if you are a linux fanatic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wow. way to spend a lot of time making excuses.

  6. jpg images? by rcamera · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    does anyone else find it annoying that these are scanned as jpg images? it might be a bit easier to read if the images were thrown into a pdf...

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  7. Re:How to tell if you are a linux fanatic. by _the_bascule · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Dude. Its oh so simple. I have the choice which OS to use, I choose Linux. I have used them both, and been employed professionaly in the Windows field. I *choose* Linux.
    If even half of what you said was true in terms of slating the Linux OS I would find it unusable.

    20. You don't have DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW support in your pathetic OS.

    yes I do.

    28. You think that Linux is better because slashdot told you so

    Nope. Choice, see above.

    27. You cannot admit that support for USB on linux is laughable at best.

    I actually find Linux USB support better, plug four different keydrives into XP, see the result, perhaps you meant crappy USB devices that need hardware emulating drivers.

    Given that I guess I'm not a zealot, but factual flaming if any at all please/

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