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"Cars used to impress other people" [Palo Alto Times, 1976-04-26]
Micro-computer fans form firm
Two young computer enthusiasts who couldn’t afford to buy a micro-computer last year instead put together their own – and it was so successful they’ve decided to market it.
On May 1, Steven Jobs, 21, and Stephen Wozniak, 26, will deliver 60 models of Apple Computer I to computer shops in Mountain View and Orange, Calif.
They also will market blank circuit less computer boards for hobbyists who want to build their own computers. The boards have metal tracers and a legend for where to place circuits.
Jobs is a part-time physics students at Stanford University; Wozniak designs calculators at Hewlett/Packard in Cupertino.
A year ago, neither knew much about micro computers, though each had a background in standard computers.
They joined the Homebrew Computer Club at SLAC and after six months built a computer based on the 6502 Mos Technology microprocessor (known as the computer “chip,” or the heart of a computer). The number of requests they received for their computer prompted them to go into business. The complete computer board, including memory, without a case, will sell for about $550.
Apple Computer I has a simpler, smaller, less expensive and more versatile computer board than existing models, Jobs said. “Dynamic memory” – whose contents can be controlled by users, in contrast to “static memory” – and multifunction circuits are two basic ideas behind the computer.
Despite competition from larger, established firms, Jobs and Wozniak see a bright market outlook. More and more people are buying computers and even those who already have a computer want an-other, Jobs said.
“It’s like a car. People don’t use them just to go places. They’re used for other reasons, like to impress other people,” he said.
—Palo Alto Times, April 26, 1976
Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe
The situation in Tehran is the result of “a perfect storm of climate change and corruption,” says Michael Rubin, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.
The overuse did not just deplete underground reserves—it destroyed them, as the land compressed and sank irreversibly. One recent study found that Iran’s central plateau, where most of the country’s aquifers are located, is sinking by more than 35 centimeters each year.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/irans-capital-has-run-out-of-water-forcing-it-to-move/Open linkView original on slrpnk.net
The Trillion Dollar Scam - How Google Really Makes Money [FortNine]
“sales inference” versus “sales influence”
Any distros built with tcc instead of gcc?
(this is just as a matter of curiosity)
we now have a couple distros using musl instead of (or along side of) glibc, so I got to wondering (got sidetracked by) if anyone had done a similar project with tcc replacing gcc?
The little editor that could (ed)
ed was based on using the teletype – the “persistent display” was the paper itself
What I really love is that when the teletype has finished printing off his little diary, Rex can simply tear it off and walk away, keeping it in his pocket, put on his wall. It’s produced a little physical artifact for him to carry around.
[Drew DeVault] Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
“If blasting CO2 into the air and ruining all of our freshwater and traumatizing cheap laborers and making every sysadmin you know miserable and ripping off code and books and art at scale and ruining our fucking democracy isn’t enough for you to leave this shit alone, what is?”
