[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] 1954

[A. Richard Miller]

Hi, Friends:

It was a spoof. :-)

See Snopes:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1954-home-computer/
and this:
http://www.ominous-valve.com/home1954.html

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On 1/23/20 8:29 PM, Michael Alexander wrote:
> Oh!  From the title of the email, the date was 1954.  That was 
> slightly less than four years after the commissioning of the US’s 
> first stored program computer (SEAC - 1950) and the first commercial 
> computer UNIVAC I -1951).  It’s hardly surprising that RAND’s 
> ‘personal’ computer looked like the general purpose computers of that 
> day; that’s all that people knew, then.
>
>    – Mike Alexander
>
>
> On Thursday, January 23, 2020, 8:19 PM, Michael Alexander 
> <mna.ma at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>     What’s the date of this RAND photo and the press release?  How
>     does it compare to the date when integrated circuits were invented?
>
>        — Mike Alexander
>
>
>     On Thursday, January 23, 2020, 4:02 PM, jjrudy1 at comcast.net wrote:
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