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George H.W.'s greatest foe
Anyone of his generation.
I had to exain them to my parents, and my father was highly educated and technically trained. 1
No one foresaw this? Really? The first time I saw it, I was 10. I wondered why they even needed cashiers if we could just scan everything.
If a ten year old kid thought that decades ago, what were the adults that managed mainframes and minicomputers thinking?
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
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