Socialism's DYI Computer | Tribune Magazine

“The reason for this resurgent interest in Galaksija is perhaps due to the fact that this exciting and little-known episode in computer-science history is pregnant with counterfactual potential. Galaksija embodies a destratification of today’s technological hierarchy, a tacit ideological assertion that computing machinery should be for the masses, cheap and available to everyone, and that neither money nor technical know-how need be barriers to entry.”

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Rex B. Wilkes / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)Photo of Mary Allen Wilkes - With the LINC computer at Home - 1965

Rex B. Wilkes / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

Photo of Mary Allen Wilkes - With the LINC computer at Home - 1965

Thumbnail Image : Desktop computer GALAKSIJA, designed by Gojko Varda in cooperation with company Elektronika inženjering in 1978

Unknown author / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

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