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> Does anyone know why the specific decisions and guidelines used here may have been made? Presumably the guidelines were designed in such a way as to disquali
by jff 12y ago
> Does anyone know why the specific decisions and guidelines used here may have been made?
Presumably the guidelines were designed in such a way as to disqualify all previous definitions of "the first personal computer", allowing the author to select one even older and more obscure.
- dragontamer 12y agoWhile this is true, the point of the article isn't to choose a valid first computer. It is a funny way to step through computing history with more and more obscure devices.