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0 points1letterunixname2y ago0 comments

- Mouse, of course

- Magnetic check ink

- ERMA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Recording_Machine,_...

More importantly: Stanford, SRI, and the high signal of connected people in Palo Alto created lots of inventions and companies. Sports metaphor: when they're on the team, the team scores more indirectly by their presence. Palo Alto-Stanford has been a modern "Venice" in terms of center of business-meets-academic since about 1940. Boston owns it in academia in sheer numbers of campuses and of reputation, but not when it comes to tightening the iteration loops of making money.

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xhkkffbf2y ago

Boston used to have a viable computer industry but it's all largely faded away with the minicomputers. Oh well. They've got the drug business now.

jhbadger2y ago

And in the 1980s and 1990s Boston used to have a great computer museum, but that closed in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Museum,_Boston

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