
Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe
The Joy of x
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The Macintosh Computer
Mackintosh was around in the middy eighties, i think. You had a little floppy disk, and you'd have to insure it at in an floppy disk. It came with an initializing flop disk, so to get stuff going. But that was it. A new cold store stuff on a floppy. The fact that you could visualize something like immediately after computing something was just astounding to me as a child. And i remember the first big code that i wrote a which was, you know, making a star map for over delly,. That was like the major accomplishment for me at the time; i remember saving it on a floppy disk.
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