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Symbolics Keyboard, from Wikipedia

Back in the 80s there was an AI (artificial intelligence) boom – a euphoric time of specialized computers and the belief that we were going to be able to invent smart computer systems. It was after Xerox PARC‘s peak but before personal computers had the computing power that eventually put specialized high-end workstations on the path to extinction. My first job after college was in Boston at BBN — working in their AI and Experimental…
 
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