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computer history Man orders a pizza using a talking computer (1974) Mark Frauenfelder
Games Watch: How "oldschool" computer graphics worked back in the eighties Xeni Jardin
Technology "The Computer Girls," 1967 Cosmopolitan magazine article on women working with technology Xeni Jardin
Boing Boing Gadgets The IBM 1620, an affordable "scientific computer" from 1959. Xeni Jardin
video "The Queen of Code," new short documentary on computing pioneer Grace Hopper Red Scott
computer history Altair 8800 clone Mark Frauenfelder
maker Doug Engelbart (RIP): "The Mother of All Demos" David Pescovitz
computer history 1951 digital computer restored and rebooted David Pescovitz
1970s Farewell, Ceefax: TV teletext service dies; nonsense pages immortalized in "Look Around You" Xeni Jardin