Comments on: 40 Years Ago Today, the World Saw Its First Personal Computer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/09/40-years-ago-today-the-world-saw-its-first-personal-computer/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:46:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eliza Strickland http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/09/40-years-ago-today-the-world-saw-its-first-personal-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-15774 Eliza Strickland Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:55:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/09/40-years-ago-today-the-world-saw-its-first-personal-computer/#comment-15774 That's awesome, Michael. Feel free to drop some lyrics on us anytime. That’s awesome, Michael. Feel free to drop some lyrics on us anytime.

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]]> By: michael http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/09/40-years-ago-today-the-world-saw-its-first-personal-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-15629 michael Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:35:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/09/40-years-ago-today-the-world-saw-its-first-personal-computer/#comment-15629 "It was 40 years ago today Engelbart blew the crowd away. . . Prof Engel-bart's lonely NLS You know that you'd enjoy that show Prof Engel-bart's only home PC Look back and be amazed, say "Whoa!" “It was 40 years ago today
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]]> By: nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/09/40-years-ago-today-the-world-saw-its-first-personal-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-15624 nick Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:04:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/12/09/40-years-ago-today-the-world-saw-its-first-personal-computer/#comment-15624 This is a pretty amusing story, since popular mythology holds that Apple stole these concepts from Xerox Parc - turns out they didn't invent them either. This is a pretty amusing story, since popular mythology holds that Apple stole these concepts from Xerox Parc – turns out they didn’t invent them either.

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