{"id":2302,"date":"2013-03-26T01:40:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T08:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2013-03-26T01:40:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T08:40:35","slug":"electrolux-the-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/electrolux-the-computer","title":{"rendered":"Electrolux, the computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, like many programmers of my generation, I grew up reading usenet posts like the <A HREF=http:\/\/catb.org\/jargon\/html\/story-of-mel.html>Story of Mel<\/A>. I had always assumed it was apocryphal, because the idea of a computer made by the Royal McBee typewriter company sounds unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Except that it&#8217;s all true. Here is the beast in question, complete with a lovely 50&#8217;s control panel that reminds me of a metal vacuum cleaner I had when I was young: <A HREF=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?NR=1&#038;v=7WaYYNUCWMY&#038;feature=endscreen>LGP-30<\/A> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, like many programmers of my generation, I grew up reading usenet posts like the Story of Mel. I had always assumed it was apocryphal, because the idea of a computer made by the Royal McBee typewriter company sounds unlikely. Except that it&#8217;s all true. Here is the beast in question, complete with a lovely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}