Times Have Changed #1

This new series will focus on what some of our most common tech phrases used to mean. Today's episode: the Desktop Computer.

(from the August 1959 issue of Popular Science)

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Posted By: Salamander Sam - Thu May 07, 2009
Category: Computers | 1950s | Yesterday’s Tomorrows

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My dad used to work on these! And the bigger, room-sized computers. We still have boxes of the numbered punch cards in the attic. We use them for scrap paper.

Posted by Nethie on 05/07/09 at 08:12 PM

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