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		anthk on Oct 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rabbit hole: stumbling across two Portuguese punch... More like the 60's and 70's, and infamously known because of the comic books. "Electronic Brains" in the 80's, maybe until 1981 or 1982.

pantulis on Oct 10, 2024 [–]

I think it was like the 80 or 81 that my dad referred to the computer in their company as "el cerebro electrónico" and it was a IBM System/34.

anthk on Oct 10, 2024 | [–]

Yeah, what I said. After the IBM PC began to root in Spain (and micros like the ZX Spectrum), no one used neither cerebro electrónico nor computadora.

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