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Article #621840Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:07
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:07
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On Tue, 2018-04-17, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2018-04-17, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2018-04-17, Dave Garland wrote: >> >>> On 4/16/2018 1:42 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >>> >>>> On Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 9:24:47 PM UTC-4, Charles Richmond wrote: >> ... >>> If someone is a collector, >>>> the computer can be used to index the items within a collection, >>>> allowing sorting by different keywords (e.g. date, description, >>>> origin, etc.) >>> >>> From the day's of the first HP(?) "home computer" long before PCs >>> appeared, this has been one of the suggested uses. And I'm sure it >>> would work fine for that. But in over 3 decades of providing support, >> >> The cookie recipe database was a famous use case, but as far as I can >> tell it was dragged up as an attempt to justify a computer, not >> something someone actually *created*. Justifying a home computer was >> really hard before the internet. > > Not for people like us. We really wanted a computer, and got one > as soon as we could. Of course, but I meant "justifying" as in "stating a rational reason" ;-) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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