it may be 50 years that people don't have to share a mashine, the american computer history museum suggests, using it somehow as a definition for the personal computer. they organized a celebration where they invited alan kay to talk about dynabook. or as kay states: "the power of the context" and the "40th anniversary of an idea". it's actually a talk about heroes and landmarks in computing. recommended (if you ignore the moderator) | pointer via mivsek.

one think worth to celebrate is 40 years of engelbart's demo he gave at the 9th of december 1968. 3.45pm.

50 years ago: john mccarthy with lisp.

1962: the romance of interactive computing began with sutherland's sketchpad;

its the linc (wes clark, 1962), alan kay would give his vote for as "the first true personal computer", having the quote of wes clark on his slide: "the user should be able to see over the computer."

there have been lots of "single computers" around already in the mid 60's.

once i had a question about KiddieKomp, dynabook and notetaker. but i didn't ask alan kay, i asked adele goldberg instead ... hope she was invited, though.

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