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History of Computing Hardware Basics
Technology is:anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAY
Should you care about
OLDtechnology?
History … illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life.
CICERO
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.
KARL MARX
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Starvation, desertion, typhus, and suicide would rob the French Army of more men than all the battles of the Russian invasion combined.
PETERSON, R. K. D.
The Russian campaign was the decisive turning-point of the Napoleonic Wars.
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185060%
of employed Americans worked in agriculture
In
19942.7%
of employed Americans worked in agriculture
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$400,000ENIAC
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micro1975 1990
micro1975 1990
network1990 present
network1990 present
care?why do you