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0 pointskiba15y ago0 comments

I'm not saying that it quashes all of it, just that it's set back personal fabrication 25 years.

Forgive me for my historical ignorance, is there any sort of open hardware movement 25 years ago?

If not, than replication technology 25 years ago would probably have a different character.

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elai15y ago

The parallels between the makerbot/reprap and the Altair 8800 in 1975 is very interesting. It couldn't do much, but it marked the start of the "personal" computer era. Microsoft made it's first piece of software for that machine.

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0 pointskiba15y ago0 comments

I'm not saying that it quashes all of it, just that it's set back personal fabrication 25 years.

Forgive me for my historical ignorance, is there any sort of open hardware movement 25 years ago?

If not, than replication technology 25 years ago would probably have a different character.

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elai15y ago

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