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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