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		linker3000 on May 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Choosing a Name for Your Computer (1990) I had a small DC at work that included Turing and Lovelace, plus: Wilkes, Babbage amd Hopper.

vincent-manis on May 24, 2023 [–]

My home wifi SSID is Marsnet, and my machines are all named after Martian surface features. So there's olympus and pavonis, arcadia and xanthe, and so on. I'm typing this on syrtis-major. I'm hoping not to run out of surface features.

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