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Re: The Science Generations
At 1:12 AM 12/6/96 -0800, Dale Thorn wrote:
>I would guess that those who became and remained successful technically
>(as opposed to becoming "business people") were using HP computers and
>such in the 1970s. I for one was a heavy user then, and PETs, Apples,
>Radio Shack, etc. computers weren't reliable enough for serious work.
I guess those people using VisiCalc on the Apple ][ weren't doing serious
work :-). (Also the many small businesses using these early machines for
AR, Accounting etc.) Me, I was doing OS programming on IBM 370s.
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