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From ACS to Altair: The Rise of the Hobby Computer (technicshistory.com)
41 points by cfmcdonald 60 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



I'm sure most science fiction fans will know that Hugo Gernsback, mentioned prominently in TFA, is the person the Hugo Award is named after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award


And his surname is immortalized in William Gibson’s “The Gernsback Continuum”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gernsback_Continuum


We often hear about the seminal Popular Electronics magazine, but interesting to see that some others have had also a huge influence.

The Radio-Electronics TV Typewriter magazine is also mentioned by Steve Wozniak while working on the Apple I.




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