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| | [AI summary] The author reflects on their early experiences with the Commodore 64 and Apple II computers in school, highlighting how exposure to Logo programming and the different design philosophies of these machines shaped their career and approach to software development.
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| | Unlike the Apple I, the Apple II was fully assembled and ready to use with any display monitor. The version with 4K of memory cost $1298. It had color, graphics, sound, expansion slots, game paddles, and a built-in BASIC programming language.
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| | In 1974, Ted Nelson self-published a very unusual book. Nelson lectured on sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago to pay the bills, but his true calling was as a technological revolutionary. In the 1960s, he had dreamed up a computer-based writing system which would preserve links among different documents. He called the concept...
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| Reverse engineering the armv1 chip feels a lot like completing a jig saw puzzle. I start with the more obvious "chunks", and then gradually ...