: "You may have just unwittingly made the case for an education more thoroughly grounded in the history of the field: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_CPC (IBM had shipped hundreds of these when the number of "real computers" on the planet was in the dozens at most.)"

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You may have just unwittingly made the case for an education more thoroughly grounded in the history of the field: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_CPC

(IBM had shipped hundreds of these when the number of "real computers" on the planet was in the dozens at most.)

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Kavi 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social
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I'm aware that early computers used punch cards, that does not make punch cards a form of computing, any more than text is a form of computing

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