That's why I made post #296. There is an amazing deep history behind the origin of the personal computer (robot head).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, is a 2005 non-fiction book by John Markoff. The book details the history of the personal computer, closely tying the ideologies of the collaboration-driven, World War II-era defense research community to the embryonic cooperatives and psychedelics use of the American counterculture of the 1960s.
The book follows the history chronologically, beginning with Vannevar Bush's description of his inspirational memex machine in his 1945 article "As We May Think". Markoff describes many of the people and organizations who helped develop the ideology and technology of the computer as we know it today, including Doug Engelbart, Xerox PARC, Apple Computer and Microsoft Windows.
Markoff argues for a direct connection between the counterculture of the late 1950s and 1960s (using examples such as Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, California) and the development of the computer industry. The book also discusses the early split between the idea of commercial and free-supply computing.
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Originally Posted by redpoiny5
Happy I avoided a career in software development though. I don't have the attention span to implement customer requirements, which are always dumb.
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That was some of the best work I ever had, evaluating programs submitted for publication, writing manuals and catalogs and producing artwork for advertising. The businesses were small and there were a lot of different tasks.
When I went on to technical support it was more customer-centric, but they were prone to begging and I got a dopamine hit every time I saved someone's job.