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Computing pioneer felsenstein eyes PCs for the poor

Computing pioneer Felsenstein eyes PCs for the poorGoodies for the Cargo CultThis is the most cruel, immoral, and obscene developemnt since, well, since Negroponte developed the hand-cranked laptop for the poor li'l kiddies in Africa. I suppose the spreadsheet is to track the profit and loss in your chicken sales....

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, PC, Pemstar, Felsenstein, benefit

Discussion threads 2006-06-26

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Photos: Computers of yesteryear

At the DigiBarn, computer history is on display alongside several potbellied pigs.A giant disk used for storage on the Xerox Alto computer, as seen at the DigiBarn Computer Museum in Boulder Creek, Calif.:The DigiBarn''s mascots are these potbellied pigs, which live in pens just outside. The museum is in a...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, photograph, DigiBarn, computer, Xerox Corp., Steve Wozniak, museum, cassette, artifact, circuit board, word-processing, home PC, digital music player, music player, co-founder, GUI, digital music, laser, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, mouse, San Francisco, wall, innovati

Image galleries 2007-08-18

Photos: Happy developers in da house

Some 150 people gather in a Los Gatos, Calif., mansion for SuperHappyDevHouse, a 12-hour marathon of coding, hacking and socializing.Participants of the 19th SuperHappy DevHouse hackathon session descended on Tom Harrison''s family home last weekend in Los Gatos, Calif. Harrison far left opened his house up to some 150 tech...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, SECURITY, photograph, Amit Patel, SuperHappyDevHouse, Los Gatos, Facebook, San Jose State University, hacking, chief technical officer, Ohio State University, University of Washington, online v

Image galleries 2007-08-16

In Search of the Valley

Worth watching: During the holiday I had the pleasure of watching "In Search of the Valley," a film written, directed and edited by fellow ZDNet blogger Steve OHear. The polished film, shot in September 2004, documents the month long journey of Steve and friends to explore the soul of Silicon...

Tags: Valley, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, General

Blog posts 2007-01-03

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak celebrates the Homebrew Computer Club turning 30

We have a bunch of videos from the 30th anniversary of the Homebrew Computer Club, where Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other technology pioneers came up with the ideas that led to the first personal computers. $666.66 seemed like a good idea: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak divulges the reasoning behind...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., wOz, Steve Wozniak, Homebrew Computer Club

Blog posts 2005-11-07