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Famously, Dijkstra did not have a computer for most of his time there. He either typed his work on a manual typewriter (early in his career) or wrote it longhan
by mcguire 6y ago
Famously, Dijkstra did not have a computer for most of his time there. He either typed his work on a manual typewriter (early in his career) or wrote it longhand in his elegant Dijkstra font (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7796919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7796919). His secretary would print out his emails for him to read and respond to.
Eventually, he got a Macintosh (IIRC, Cynthia Matuszek (https://www.csee.umbc.edu/~cmat/ https://www.csee.umbc.edu/~cmat/) was the one who set it up for him. (Hi!))