We should declare a day in August as Classic
Computer Day.
First, does anyone know the anniversary date of the release of something
significant to the classic community?
The first PDP? First Vax? (Not the pc please!) That might be a better
choice than a random pick perhaps.
It was August of 1881, when Dr. Billings first suggested to Herman Hollerith
that there ought to be a machine for doing the purely mechanical work of
tabulating population and similar statistics. Which could be considered
the dawn of the modern computer age.
-Lawrence LeMay