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From Atari T-shirts to the iPod, the computer age has generated its share of fetish objects. And like the Mini or miniskirts, They're fetishized first when they come out (Ooh! How high tech!) and again when they're so out they're in (Ooh! How retro!). Take this Cray-1 supercomputer: Once the most powerful machine on the planet – with an 8-megabyte memory and a $9 million price tag in 1976 – the Cray-1 is now coveted as furniture, its blue leather benches used as ... benches. The new book Computers: An Illustrated History celebrates the old boxes that once seemed so ahead of their time. Now they just seem timeless.
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Woman of Substance
Egomania? We Can Rebuild It
The New Scream machines
Playing With Fire
Vaporware
Bush's Cybersnoop
Into the Abyss
Say Good-Bye to Plastic
Time Machines
Jargon Watch
A Crystal Ball for War
Wired | Tired | Expired
The Mind's Eye
How to Disappear
