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Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew?

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc, alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew?
Date	2016-01-17 23:12 -0500
Organization	National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Message-ID	<alpine.LNX.2.02.1601172311120.26926@darkstar.example.org> (permalink)
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On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, M. John Matlaw wrote:

> The thing that piqued my interest was someone figuring out a way to increase 
> their chances in roulette.  Wouldn't have thought that possible.
>
> <http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/18/edward-thorp-father-of-wearable-computing/>
>
That wasn't really a computer, just a timer of some sort.

I thought the article was going to be off by a decade, and it would turn 
out to be the story related in "The Eudaemonic Pie", a book that came out 
in the eighties, and wikipedia has an entry about it.  The story actually 
happens in the mid-seventies, and by then they did have an actual 
computer, one that was wearable.

   Michael

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wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2016-01-17 05:23 -0500
  Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-17 14:20 +0000
    Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-17 15:14 +0000
      Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-17 19:24 +0000
        Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-17 20:15 +0000
  Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2016-01-17 10:25 -0800
  Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-17 23:12 -0500
    Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-18 10:01 +0000
      Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-18 15:28 -0500
        Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-19 03:58 +0000
          Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 23:16 -0500
        Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-19 00:22 -0600
          Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-19 06:58 -0500
            Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-19 08:32 -0600
              Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-19 15:48 +0000
          Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-19 15:44 -0500
        Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-19 07:36 -0500
          Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-19 15:46 -0500
            Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-19 16:37 -0600
  Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Sbez <Sbez742@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 07:19 -0600
    Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-04 16:24 +0000

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