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Why there were no personal computers, or smartphones, in the 1960s

June 13, 2017

Love this photo. It says so much.

Science Magazine Tweet: 10 MB hard disk from the 1960s.

Who is the guy in the photo? Pretty sure it’s a contemporaneous picture of the historic artifact.

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John Mashey reminds me on Twitter of the Computer History Museum, upon which teachers should probably rely more; great photos
And see this short film on the invention of the hard-drive, from the Computer History Museum

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