Voldemort as History

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 3549

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Susan McGee wrote:
> 
> > I won't insult anyone's knowledge by posting a history of the Mac
> > computer here.
> 
> Actually, tying into another thread, this falls into the "history 
so recent
> that everyone is assumed to know it" category for me. I didn't 
start paying
> attention to personal computers until I could afford one (which 
wasn't that
> long ago...), and didn't opt for a Mac anyway. But they were 
started by Bill
> Gates in his garage, right? 

Oh, it was Steve Jobs and Wozniak (can't remember his first name) who
worked in their basement. Anyway, the personal desktop computer was
the idea of 60s radicals who wanted to take the power of computing
away from the Pentagon and give it to the people. Very counter-
cultural and anti-bureaucratic.

Susan