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I wanted to read the "please tell me what a personal computer can do" list, but it's blurry, so here's a high-res version: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/

I wanted to read the "please tell me what a personal computer can do" list, but it's blurry, so here's a high-res version: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/newads15/someoneplease3.jpg http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/newads15/someoneplease3... How much longer that list would be today is a little breathtaking.

jxy 4y ago
Thanks for the high-res link. Surprisingly our computers still do these things, after forty some years. Yet their ancestors did the same job while holding "2,400 double spaced pages or 30,000 names and addresses."
amelius 4y ago
It's funny that Apple calls their computers a "PC". Was that before the IBM PC?
- mcculley 4y ago
  Yes. It is a weird historical artifact of terminology. We had lots of “personal computers” before IBM made theirs. After that, IBM’s offering became the product most associated with the term. It is a weak example of genericide.