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Subject: [COFF] Views of the future from 1970?
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:21:53 +0000	[thread overview]
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On 25 Oct 2020 14:06 +0000, from finnoleary at inventati.org (Finn O'Leary):
> It got me wondering -- what /was/ the view of the future of computing, by
> people working deeply with the systems of the time?

Not sure if it counts, and you'll probably get first-hand accounts
here too, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4 might still
be worth 33 minutes of your time.

-- 
Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael at kjorling.se
 “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-25 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-25 14:06 finnoleary
2020-10-25 14:21 `  [this message]
2020-10-26 12:43 ` paul
2020-10-26  2:39 rudi.j.blom

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