24 Apr
1999
24 Apr
'99
7:29 p.m.
On other point: Do you have any idea how many computers there were in
1952? Or their cost?
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Allison J Parent wrote:
<(if available at 1/4th of a year salery) and I
can't see any
<difference to the situation in the 70s - the same group of electonic
<fascinated people would have taken the chance.
<
<The effect is just that there was no such device.
And ther ewas more importantly no concept of having/building one outside of
university circles (how did they do it!).
Allison
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid