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Death of a Computer (1984) (texasmonthly.com)
6 points by Octokiddie 10 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> Maybe someday having a computer in your home will rank with having an oven and a television. In the meantime, the people who sell home computers have to work with the realities at hand, one of which is that a home computer has no immediately recognizable purpose.

I gather Mr. Nocera had never died of dysentery or been eaten by a grue.

> (which raised another troubling question: if you were going to end up spending that much money, why not just buy an Apple to begin with?).

Some things never change.




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