the year when bubble memory was brought to the market by texas instruments, the market between office and data transmission was called "no man's land", the rental charges for a terminal with some text formatting capability droped to $40 per month and time sharing charges was $0,15cpu second and $2 per hour connecting time.

not to forget, the pricing model for software packages was called a black art. one model was "long term, non purchase leases, a tactic tried already in the early days of proprietary software, but few were able to go the distance ...

...Then another idea occurred to him: what if he simply used the network to dispatch a single e-mail to all of them? “We invite you to come see the 2020 and hear about the DECSystem-20 family,’’ the message read. As historic lines go, it didn’t have quite the ring of “One small step for a man,” yet Gary Thuerk’s impact cannot be disputed. When he pushed the send button, he became the father of spam ...| michael specter, damn spam, tny

i don't understand why people wanna believe the world has been developed yesterday. but i admit, i don't like the line "father of"

finally, fran allen's turing award lecture 2006.

it has changed my life, ...now i can have capitve audiences, lot of times.

parallism everywhere. general purpose computing: i am wondering, if this term is only known to historians or those who have been around long enough.

1000cores on a chip ...