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The whole magazine is great. The scope and quality are impressive - from the Xerox Alto (and its GUI/mouse/Ethernet) to Tony Hoare's Turing lecture to AI resear
by musicale 3y ago
The whole magazine is great. The scope and quality are impressive - from the Xerox Alto (and its GUI/mouse/Ethernet) to Tony Hoare's Turing lecture to AI research to programming and circuit projects to product reviews. Even the ads are interesting (and not just in retrospect I think.)
Like an Osborne "briefcase" computer ad on page 33. Cheaper than the Model III, more "portable", and it runs (HN favorite) CP/M out of the box. Less than $6K adjusted for inflation - cheaper than a specced out MacBook Pro!
And since the Osborne's storage (dual 100KB floppy drives) is removable, you could in principle exceed the MacBook Pro's aggregate 8TB SSD storage capacity with only 80 million floppy disks.