[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] 1954

[Steve Isenberg]

Good discovery, Mr. Miller!
-steve

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:25 AM A. Richard Miller <
TheMillers at millermicro.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> Cheers from
> --Dick Miller, Partner, MMS <TheMillers at millermicro.com>
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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> <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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