This link has been bookmarked by 3 people . It was first bookmarked on 29 Apr 2008, by tony curzon price.
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20 Feb 09
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Hollerith retained the idea of renting rather than selling
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dedicated word processors,
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Apple to allow the software onto the machine
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14 Feb 09
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invent entirely new appliances from scratch as long as they had the ideas and the patience to attach lots of wires to springy posts.
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But PCs were still firmly grounded in the realm of hobbyists, alongside 75-in-1 Project Kit designs.
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Radio Shack’s “75-in-1 Electronic Project Kit,”
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Hollerith model
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appliance model
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29 Apr 08
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went wrong.
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from scratch
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purposes
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Cutting and pasting different pieces of Flexowriter tape together allowed the user to do mail merges about as easily as one can do them today with Microsoft Word or its rivals.
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reprogram them.
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problems
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tabulators
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springy posts.
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revolution
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a university
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no more.
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opponent
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or the Web.
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PCs can run.
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installed
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themselves
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parties’ code
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by others
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supremacy there.
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