Douglas W. Jones's punched card indexhttp://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/history.html
Before Computers The punched card as used for data processing, originally invented by Herman Hollerith, was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board o
A brief technical history of punched cards
Computation, Memory, Nature, and Lifehttps://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/comp_mem_nat_life/
time I tried to explain computers to non-techies, it was difficult to get across that the much vaunted “computer memory bank” of science fiction was nothing more than
Computation, Memory, Nature, and Life
Emulators Online - free Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, and Apple Macintosh emulationhttp://www.emulators.com/
2019 at the Living Computers Museum . Emulators.com exhibited our original 1979-1993 era Atari 800, XL, XE, TT, and Falcon computers as well exhibiting the MIST FPGA re-impl
The Phoenix Arises - Viable Alternatives to the Microsoft Platform - Amiga Operating Envirnment, Linux, Mac OS X Serverhttp://webarchive.me/geocities/SiliconValley/Drive/3664/os.htm
and Pentium PC class computers. The open source community has xFree86 window manager and KDE running it. freeBSD - for Intel processors NetBSD - for many processors OpenBSD Linux
Interesting DOS programs - Full Indexhttp://dosprograms.info.tt/indexall.htm
to connect multiple computers via serial cable EZ-NOS 2 a http web server with Server Side Includes support, secure FTP Server with md5 authenication, DNS server and a TCP/IP acce
Resume -- Chip Morningstarhttp://www.fudco.com/chip/resume.html
devices, and personal computers, used by both consumers and enterprises. During my tenure there the system had around 200 million registered users worldwide. Most of my work at Ev
DEC Video Terminals--The VT100 and its Successorshttps://www.vt100.net/shuford/terminal/dec.html
vendor) Altex Computers & Electronics Filip Gieszczykiewicz's "Repair FAQ" might still contain connector-pinout Data . Levitte Programming offers information about OpenVMS (19
Archived info on DEC video terminals: character-cell non-bit-mapped ANSI and remote-graphics terminals + control codes, terminal-emulation software.
MS-DOS Kermithttps://www.kermitproject.org/mskermit.html
with other kinds of computers, including IBM's own (a service that not even IBM could offer at the time). The prototype was done by Bill Catchings of the Kermit project in a singl
Communications software for DOS and Windows 3.x,offering serial and network communications (including its own compact built-inTCP
New Yorkhttps://www.hellenicaworld.com/USA/Geo/en/NewYork.html
such as foodstuffs, computers and electronics, cut diamonds and other commodities, and automobile parts. In 2007, the state exported a total of $71.1 billion worth of goods, with
New York, USA Online Encyclopedia
Gary Kildallhttp://www.gaby.de/kildall.htm
for some of it: Microcomputers were a new field, ripe for rapid advances, and that's a situation that fits neatly into a collegial atmosphere in which information is openly shared
Gary Kildall and Collegial Entrepreneurship
Techrights — Links 30/01/2024: Many More Layoffs (Microsoft the Most Tech Layoffs This Year)http://techrights.org/n/2024/01/30/Links_30_01_2024_Many_More_Layoffs_Microsoft_the_Most_Tech_Layo.shtml
Outdoor Time, Old Computers, and Joining Geminispace Links for the day Dr. Andy Farnell on Weaponising Morality Against Technofascism and Slop It's longer than a "tweet", so socia
Links for the day
Museum of Obsolete Media | 3.5-inch microfloppy disk (High Density) (1987 - late 2000s)http://floppy.museum/35inchhd.htm
and HiFD. Macintosh computers were the first to stop using floppy disks (on the iMac) in 1998, and during the 2000s, PC manufacturers began to remove drives from new PCs. Figures
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