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...Year did not sit well with most of the 1,219 readers who wrote to us; 953 censured the selection. More than one called the choice "unbelievable." Other comments: "To glorify a piece of metal that could some day rule our lives is ludicrous" and "Byte your tongue...
...great buy--for $1000 you can't even get an IBM Selectric typewriter," says John Markoff, West Coast editor of Byte magazine, another weekly journal for computer users. He adds that "it's not a mainframe computer on a desktop, but the Macintosh people did the most they possibly could within the price restrictions...
...atom was still unsplit. So were most marriages. Movies were silent, television existed only in the laboratory, and a "byte," however you spelled it, had to do with food, not information. Freud was becoming an unsettling household word, although the U.S. was not yet his colony. Hitler was still widely regarded as a hysterical Munich beer-hall brawler who could have benefited from Freud's treatment. In headlines "holocaust" was only a word for a large fire. Japan's chief export was raw silk. The jet set did not yet exist; its precursor, the smart set, took a week...