Chapter 1Tinder for the Fire
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM
The personal computer sprang to life in the mid-1970s, but its historical roots reach back to the giant electronic brains of the 1950s, and well before that to the thinking machines of 19th-century fiction.
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