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The Hobby Computer Culture

[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] From 1975 through early 1977, the use of personal computers remained almost exclusively the province of …

Adam Osborne, born to British parents in Thailand and trained as a chemical engineer, began writing texts for computer companies after losing his job at Shell Oil in California. Personal computing as practiced by large numbers of people will help end the concentration of apparent power in the “in” group of programmers and technicians, just as the enlightenment and renaissance in Europe brought about a much wider understanding beginning in the 14th century. [20] The soap opera continued with Viriginia re-marrying and becoming co-publisher with her new husband Manfred Peschke, then later marrying a third time to Gordon Williamson, who wrote a hit piece against Wayne Green’s 1988 candidacy in New Hampshire’s (non-binding) Republican vice-presidential primary.

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