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The Pop-Up Computer

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Tom
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Major Goodwill score: on a recent trip, Jon Ryan found a clever 1985 pop-up book explaining how a personal computer works. I’m hereby challenging the pop-up tycoons out there to publish an updated laptop version.



The binary decoders look especially cool.



If your local Goodwill is fresh out, you can order your own copy from Amazon.

[via Neatorama]

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