History of Computing Science: The PC Explosionhttp://lecture.eingang.org/pcexp.html
explosion of personal computers occurred, starting with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak exhibiting the first Apple II at the First West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. The App
Part of a multipage presentation on the history of computers. This page talks about the explosion of home computers.
Gerald Jay Sussmanhttps://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html
#267 -- Use of supercomputers in stellar dynamics , Springer Verlag, 1986. "A Digital Orrery," James Applegate, M. Douglas, Y. Gursel, P Hunter, C. Seitz, Gerald Jay Sussman, in I
Lena @ Things Of Interesthttps://qntm.org/mmacevedo
one can refer to how computers boot, and how applications start, opting to perform a large amount of completely useless calculations instead of just loading a ready to run memory
A note from the author You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled &q
Loper OS ยป Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computinghttp://www.loper-os.org/?p=284
with such things on our computers is a broken one: see the Seventh Law. Obfuscated code destroys my ability to usefully interrogate the machine about its activity at all times, an
Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlishttp://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
to write it. 28. Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur an
Documents, Links & Videoshttps://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/merged.html
Sites Architecture, Computers in General Computers available in era Specific Technology & Memory Manufacturer Specific Sites Machine Specific Sites Machine Specific Documents and
Writinghttp://philip.greenspun.com/writing/
with Samantha . about computers Many areas of computer science are what Kuhn would have called "pre-paradigmatic" science. People don't agree on enough fundamentals for progress t
John Regehr's Home Pagehttps://users.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/
Teaching Papers Contact Computers are amazingly fun and useful, but why do they crash and hang? Why are they so terrifyingly insecure? The problem is many-faceted, but an importan
Hewlett Packard 9100B Programmable Electronic Calculatorhttps://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/hp9100b.html
earliest commercialized computers in the early 1950s as a way to permanently store commonly-used programs; such as commonly-used math and I/O routines (e.g., calculating sines and
Book review: Retro debugginghttps://wozniak.ca/blog/2019/01/04/1/
Debugging for Microcomputers (Robert C. Bruce, Reston Publishing, 351 pp., 1980) Program Style, Design, Efficiency, Debugging, and Testing, 2nd Ed. (Dennie Van Tassel, Prentice-Ha
Scientology v. the Internethttps://www.discord.org/lippard/skeptic/03.3.jl-jj-scientology.html
network of interlinked computers, has given individuals the power to obtain information on virtually any subject from all over the world. It has also put into their hands the abil
HomePage for Brian Harvey (bh@cs.Berkeley.EDU)http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/index.html
in the use of computers in pre-college education; I used to be a high school teacher, and was involved in the development of the Logo programming language. More recently I've been
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