The importance of Harry Huskey
In a Ridenbaugh Press column this week, Martin Peterson introduces us to an important Idahoan who just died:
Last week Harry Huskey died. He was 101. A death largely unheralded in Idaho, but worthy of a half page obituary in the New York Times . In my mind, he is the most influential person ever to graduate from the University of Idaho. But if he was so influential, why have you never heard of him? Probably because you never tried to find out who was the father of personal computing. More here.
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