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Abstract
Ted Machines: Computer Lib. Dream Machines. Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, 1974.
Computer Lib
- attempt to explain why computers are "marvelous and wonderful"
- personal freedom through understanding computers
Dream Machines
- about fantasy and imagination, and new technologies for it
- new understanding and new arts through graphics and interaction
Computer Terms of the 70s
- online > connected to a functioning computer
- offline > setting things up for processing later
- remote > reffering to somethin far away
- local > right where you are
- front end > whatever stands between user and system
- dedicated > set up for only one use
- turnkey > turned on with a key
- real-time > responding to events without delays
- user-oriented > set up for users, not programmers
- user level > person without knowledge about computers but uses the system
- good-guy system > friendly, helpful, simple naive-user systems
- stand-alone system > system which doesn't need to be attached to sth else