# \#personal-computer

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## [The Japanese Personal Computing Market](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-japanese-personal-computing-market/3731)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [11 September 2023 16:05 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-japanese-personal-computing-market/3731 "2023-09-11T16:05:56Z")

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The first generation of personal computing, from inception in the mid-1970s until the sludge tsunami of Microsoft Windows extinguished innovation and creativity in systems design in the early 1990s, develop…

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## [“A Logic Named Joe”](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-logic-named-joe/2853)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [8 March 2023 19:16 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-logic-named-joe/2853 "2023-03-08T19:16:50Z")

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You will sometimes hear it claimed that “science fiction failed to predict the personal computer” or that “science fiction never foresaw the Internet”. Science fictioneers dispute this, citing Isaac Asimov’s 1958 story …