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From ACS to Altair: The Rise of the Hobby Computer

• JoeDaDude 2y ago
  I'm sure most science fiction fans will know that Hugo Gernsback, mentioned prominently in TFA, is the person the Hugo Award is named after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award
  • antonvs 2y ago
    And his surname is immortalized in William Gibson’s “The Gernsback Continuum”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gernsback_Continuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gernsback_Continuum
• fsdkfdsf 2y ago
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• kryptonomist 2y ago
  We often hear about the seminal Popular Electronics magazine, but interesting to see that some others have had also a huge influence. The Radio-Electronics TV Typewriter magazine is also mentioned by Steve Wozniak while working on the Apple I.