23 Apr
1999
23 Apr
'99
5:48 p.m.
<That's actually quite true. The technology didn't yet exist in 1950-55 fo
<the hobbyist to expand on the initial concept and extend it into something
<potentially useful or even marginally so. It probably wasn't even terribl
<educational.
<
<Dick
Therein lies a critical point. At some point the _idea_ of having your own
computer emerged as became as least acheievable. I'd say the catalyst
was transistors and early ICs were the impactors in that transistion.
Allison