[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] 1954

[A. Richard Miller]

Thank you, Steve!

And that is why one should never, not ever type _*dive_dive !*_ into a 
Linux terminal window.

(Okay, that's another spoof. :-)

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


On 1/24/20 7:08 AM, Steve Isenberg wrote:
> Good discovery, Mr. Miller!
> -steve
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:25 AM A. Richard Miller 
> <TheMillers at millermicro.com <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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> <mailto: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
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