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Saturday, December 4, 2010

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—srikanth @ 23:59

Computer history trivia: Look at the picture, and tell us what the computer on the right is called.

Bonus points for naming the famous bearded man.

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Show Answer

In 1977 at Bell Laboratories, Ken Thompson (beard) and Joe Condon developed a custom chess-playing computer called “Belle”