26 Jan
2012
26 Jan
'12
6:59 p.m.
So who needs to do any programming?
Anyone remember John Peers, the flamboyant mustachioed Englishman who
came onto the scene in about 1975, offering his "programmerless"
computer, ADAM? (no, not the Coleco version)
Here's a typical advertisement:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Adambrochure.pdf
Sort of puts IBM and Apple advertising to shame, no?
Peers had his office in Burlingame (Ca). He and ADAM sort of
disappeared as quickly as they appeared. At some point, he changed
the name of the ADAM operation to Logical Machine Corp. ("Lomac").
Ah, you just can't make this stuff up...
--Chuck