Henry Tropp “The 1940s: The First Personal Computer Era” (Part 2)

Update: 2018-07-24

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Henry Tropp, a professor of mathematics at Humboldt State University, was one of the speakers at the first West Coast Computer Faire's Saturday night banquet in 1977. This episode captures part two of his talk, “The 1940s: The First Personal Computer Era,” focusing on the developments in the late 1940s in the UK and the US and the ties between computer designers, especially in software development.

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Henry Tropp “The 1940s: The First Personal Computer Era” (Part 2)

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Henry Tropp “The 1940s: The First Personal Computer Era” (Part 2)

Henry Tropp “The 1940s: The First Personal Computer Era” (Part 2)