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There is no way it’s not an intentional irony. There were probably zero people in that audience who “cut their teeth on” the IBM 650, but if he had given it in 1973 like the title slide was pretending he was, it’d probably be the most remembered obsolete computer there. He’s the guy that made this, and just about every time he gives a talk, it shows up on Hacker News.