The Chinese Computer
YEAR: May 28, 2024
ITEM: Book
COMPANY: MIT Press
COUNTRY: USA
IN OUR COLLECTION: Yes
The book entitled The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age addresses a technological problem presented by an ideographic language. To make it simple...how do you fit thousands of characters on a keyboard. Remember, the English language only has 26 characters and with just those 26 characters we create an unlimited number of words. But an ideographic language, which has its basis in the infinite number of real things around us, has tens of thousands of characters.
What does that keyboard look like?????
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(For comparison: Many people consider the Apple-1 computer to be rare. As of 2025 there are 92 confirmed and probable Apple-1 computers.)
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