By rick
via stanfordalumni.org
Published: Jun 17 2006 / 13:38
In 1957, a lanky, bespectacled college student named Donald Knuth caught a glimpse of a beautiful stranger through a window and fell deeply in love. The object of his affection blinked enticingly back at him. It was an IBM Type 650, one of the earliest mass-produced computers and the first Knuth had ever seen. Although computer science wasn’t even really a science yet, Knuth was a goner.
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rick replied ago:
Be sure to scroll to the bottom and check out the picture of Knuth at his "home pipe-organ' - what an amazing guy! Truly a hero in the world of cumputing.
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