From: Eric Smith
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 10:03 PM
William Donzelli wrote:
> The one thing that strikes me after reading this thread is that it
> seems there is no precise point when computing history began.
Huh? I thought it began on January 13, 11 CE :-)
OK, I give up. What happened on the Ides of January in the year 764 AUC?[1]
[1] QVOD OCCIDIT IDVM IANVARII ANNO DCCLXIV AVC?
I think that was a reference to CHM's "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of
Computing" which opened on Jan 13 this year :-)
Alexey