the tech. old editions of the mit school newspaper with divergent content.

Our Indians. AS the field of labor of many of our students will be beyond the Mississippi, it may be of interest to them to learn something of a race of people which they will there meet,- the Indians. We say "will meet," for contrary to the impression generally held that the Indian race is dying out, it is in fact increasing in spite of war and famine. ...(1882)

haven't considered the tech as a source on "indians" but more stuff like "cryotron, tinier than transistors, will shrink giant computers soon" (1957)

With pioneering research on a new device to relplace transistors and tubes in giant computers, the Insti- tute has made a major contribution to what one of its engineers calls a coming "revolution" in electronics. This new device is a cryotron, so small that 100 will fit into a thimble. It is the first useful application of a phenomenon discovered nearly 50 years ago but still not yet under- stood.

to information retrieval than bush's famous paper as we may think and memex. michael buckland has collected some pointers to materials about emanuel goldberg, who in the 30s worked for zeiss ikon, dresden.

at 1927 emanuel goldberg applied for a patent for his "statistical machine",

that appears to the have been the first functioning document retrieval system to use electronics. Priority is for this technology has been wrongly ascribed to Vannevar Bush.(according to buckland)

also diarmuid pigott comments on that at digibarn.

bruce damer's mac-o-rama rare artifacts exhibit at digibarn covers all.

jef raskin's paper computer by the millions from 1979.

Over the years, he's gotten bigger and smarter and fatter, but on the day Mac came into the world he was small and trim and light ...

Traditional wisdom says the Mac was saved by a printer -- the Apple LaserWriter, which allowed anyone with a Mac and $7,000 to start a publishing business. The LaserWriter's debut in 1985 even prompts another new way to describe using a Mac: "desktop publishing." (al fasoldt, 1994)

the release date was set for the 24th of enero, but as things happen ...

The Cupertino-based company had carefully orchestrated an unveiling for the public beginning Jan. 23, a Monday. Initially, the company had asked publications not to publish public information until Jan. 24, when Mac will be unveiled at the company's annual meeting. But the ``release date'' was advanced a day, reportedly in order to capture the cover of Newsweek magazine, which appears every Monday.(mercury news)