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The Hobby Computer Culture
[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] From 1975 through early 1977, the use of personal computers remained almost exclusively the province of …
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The arrival of the IBM PC was the most significant event in the history of the personal computer since the arrival of the Altair. A slow-rolling wave, it gradually washed across the marketplace, starting with the business market, where the IBM name had the greatest attraction. Some companies rode atop the wave…
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The Useful Personal Computer
To market their new products to people who had not already spent years pining for a computer of their own, the creators of the second wave of microcomputers had to face head on the question of what…