Grumpy Ol' Fred , On the GENIAC -- thanks for sharing that! It has this "killer app" called "Masculine–Feminine Testing Machine" Brilliant!
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 2:41 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Since we are never going to completely agree on > "First", > "computer", > "home computer", > "home computing", (using a a terminal with a remote computer) > > might I suggest the works of Edmund Berkeley. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac > https://www.instructables.com/GENIAC-Electric-Brain-Replica/ > > Full text of "Giant Brains, or, Machines That Think" > https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.233530 > https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68991 > > > OB_tangent: I remember that Jim Warren said "machinew WHO think" > > > On the issue of "first", many authors on the topic have personal > "requirements" for it to be considered. (such as storage, video display, > keyboard, HDD, etc.) "It wasn't REALLY a computer, unless it had ..." In > MOST cases, they will declare the "first" to be one generation before they > got one. CP/M users often choose Altair; People who started in PC will > often pick CP/M; people who started with Windoze might pick DOS, Mac > users declare Apple2, etc. > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com >
