The ultimate question of life explained:
"The answer to this is very simple" Adams said. "It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. ... I sat on my desk, stared in to the garden and thought 42 will do. I typed it out. End of story."
Great thread . Btw in 1972 the Sinclair Exec Calculator sold for £79.95 ...as a comparison my student rent for a flat in Manchester in 1974 was £4 a week.
One more project log for the Sinclair Scientific Emulator @hackadayio page
https://t.co/YNHeP71Wrx
Custom PCB Shapes for Fritzing
https://t.co/ttakot4j6j
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