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Tom Swift: An Appreciation by Jeff Duntemann

http://www.duntemann.com/tomswift.htm

The personal computer. Computers were glaringly absent from the Swift canon. Here and there was an electromechanical calculator, and also an occasional slide rule. The rest of it

Illustrations From IBM Textbook C20-1684

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becoming involved with computers were trained "on the job". In particular, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) understood that a well-trained cadre of intelligent yo

Collected Essays, by Rudy Rucker

https://www.rudyrucker.com/transrealbooks/collectedessays/

A Brief History of Computers Games, Intelligence, Enlightenment Adventures in Gnarly Computation Web Mind Lifebox Immortality Selling Your Personality The Great Awakening Everythi

Introduction: Why Lisp?

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/introduction-why-lisp.html

father got his start in computers writing an operating system in assembly for the machine he used to gather data for his doctoral dissertation in physics. After running computer s

Greg A. Woods

http://www.weird.com/~woods/

name to look up. Old Computers Once upon a time (before I moved most recently) I had a small collection of old computers. Well maybe it wasn't all that small.... Sadly most of it

Decode Systems

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Cal-Tex CT7001 VINTAGE COMPUTERS Computer Rescue HP 2000 ACCESS RCA COSMAC Microprocessor Vintage Periodicals Captain Zilog E&L MMD-1 Mini-Micro Designer Apple Computer Vintag

AboutMe

http://www.hufsoft.net/hank/aboutme.html

of mainframe computers at that time. I spent my early years with them learning how to maintain a large B6700 at the Philadelphia Electric Company in downtown Philadelphia. This wa
Biography of Hank Hufnagel

The Myth of Technological Progress — Chadnet

https://wiki.chadnet.org/the-myth-of-technological-progress

In 1959, we had computers, international telephony, advanced programming languages like Lisp, which remains the most advanced programming language, routine commercial jet flight,
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Remarks on the Doomsday Argument

https://anthropic-principle.com/preprints/inv/investigations

replace ourselves with computers, our "mind children" (Moravec [1989]). In itself the fussiness may not be very harmful for the DA, but it raises the suspicion that it m
Will the human race soon become extinct? Read about the Carter-Leslie doomsday argument

Calligraphy Skills and the Enjoyment of Beautiful Writing

https://www.calligraphy-skills.com/

class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it w
Dedicated to good amateur calligraphy – tools, tips, techniques and online tutorials

BlitWise Productions, Shareware & Free Games

http://classic.blitwise.com/

support 64-bit on Mac computers. If you purchased either Pocket Tanks Deluxe for Mac or Super DX-Ball Deluxe for Mac, please send an email to techsupport@blitwise.com and ask for
Writing games that are good clean fun... high quality, family approved games that you won't be afraid to show to your non-computer buddies.

OS X as a UNIX workstation (for Astronomers)

http://www.netpurgatory.com/osx-unix.html

Zeus-MP Blog Twitter Computers What's New Links Last modified 10/08/2018 OS X as a UNIX workstation for Astronomy (and hopefully other sciences) Setup Differences with Traditional


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