Complaining about spotty wifi? What about the time when a computer took up a room?
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During a conference in February in Geneva called Lift, participants could reminisce over the earliest days of computing thanks to the Mémoires Informatiques foundation. Founded in Lausanne in March 2007, the group seeks to safeguard the knowledge of computing pioneers and their programming languages to guarantee obsolete computers will still work years from now. Here’s a look at some of those machines.
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