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Brief History of Character Codes in North America, Europe, and East Asia

http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/characcodehist.html

What makes personal computers useful to the majority of people is not that they can process numerical data--yes, a lot of people still prepare their tax statements with a handheld

bryan wann :: binary fury

https://binaryfury.wann.net/

fixing up vintage computers and software, so why not get a vintage tractor running? TL;DR: good news: tractor runs, bad news, a lot of bad things [photos: flickr – IH 484 tr
Bryan Wann, California, USA

http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/pcjr_tandy/

http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/pcjr_tandy/

could do things other computers could not do. I could finally have my animated adventure game. Q: What's so special about the PCjr? A: It has sixteen solid colors. It's hard to do

Extra Ordinary | D. Griffin Jones

https://www.dgriffinjones.com/

humans work, not how computers work. It makes me sad seeing perfectly good knowledge already accessible 30 years ago being completely ignored or thrown away today. A saying that r
A blog about technology, software and more.

Welcome to Simon N Goodwin's home page, Simon.mooli.org.uk, November 2024 remix

http://simon.mooli.org.uk/

the 'hooter' of early computers through one-bit audio outputs on MIT, PDP-1, Apple and ZX Spectrum systems, to an explanation of exactly how state of the art 3D soundfields are de

Rudy Rucker, "Notes For THE BIG AHA"

https://www.rudyrucker.com/thebigaha/notesforthebigaha/Text/notesforthebigaha.xhtml

for the backstory. Chip computers are long gone, and biotech devices have been the rule. But now the popularity of biotech devices is dying out as well. My character evolves into

What is Forth?

http://www.figuk.plus.com/what.htm

dreamed of programming computers with a natural language such as English, but the problem of ambiguity remains insuperable. Forth, like English, is made up of words separated by s

The Art of Unix Programming

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/

are trademarks of Apple Computers, Inc. ClearCase is a trademark of Rational Software, Inc. Ethernet is a trademark of 3COM, Inc. Excel, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and PowerPoint a

Loper OS » No Formats, no Format Wars.

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=309

If this isn't how our computers work, why do we act as if it were?  The core idiocy of all web format wars lies in the assumption that there must necessarily be a pre-determined,

555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC

http://www.righto.com/2016/02/555-timer-teardown-inside-worlds-most.html

restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever 555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC This article is translated into Vietnamese at: Bên trong c

Technology and Civilization

https://zerocontradictions.net/civilization/technology

Transistor Digital Computers The Internet Vaccines Printing Press Typewriter Telegraph Telephone Smartphones Caravel Steam Engine Wind Mills & Turbines Nuclear Bombs Nuclear R
Technology causes just as many problems as it solves, like evolutionary mismatch and deprivation of the power process. Modern civilization is bound to collapse.

Viruses of the Mind

https://www.dankalia.com/science/mnd146.htm

to duplicate DNA. Computers and their associated disc and tape readers are designed with high fidelity in mind. As with DNA molecules, magnetized bytes don't literally ``want'' to


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