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electronic digital computers owe much to the pioneering work done by individuals like Wilhelm Schickard, a German scholar who built the first mechanical calculator in 1623, and Ch
Web pages covering a broad range of computing topics, including computer hardware, operating systems, computer gaming and the history of computing.

Alterslash, the unofficial Slashdot digest

https://alterslash.org/

32 electrons. Quantum computers can represent these systems directly rather than approximate them, because they operate according to the same quantum mechanical laws that govern e
Alterslash picks the best 5 comments from each of the day’s Slashdot stories, and presents them on a single page for easy reading.

Device Side Data

http://www.deviceside.com/

available, including hardware photos and software screenshots . Previous Events W6TRW swap meet, January 27th, 2007 Attendees to this electronics and ham radio swap meet were invi

The computer built to last 50 years

https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/

in the cold. Of course, computers are not typewriters. They do a lot more than typewriters. But could we imagine a computer built like a typewriter? A computer that could stay wit
The computer built to last 50 years par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

BRL Report 1961

https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-ibm06.html

sq ft Room size, computerSmall Floor loading8.6 lbs/sq ft 800 lbs concen max Weight, computer750 lbs Installed a separate 120V, 60 cycle, 30 amp line. WSMR Power, computer120V sin

The Command Line In 2004

https://garote.bdmonkeys.net/commandline/

of interacting with computers, wouldn't have occurred to me at the time I was being taken for rides in that MGB. I had signed up to take a computer programming class at Ames High

RFC 1480: The US Domain

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1480

In the past, the computers registered in the US Domain were primarily owned by small companies or individuals with computers at home. However, the US Domain has grown and currentl

userland: a book about the command line for humans

https://p1k3.com/userland-book/

but in the meanwhile computers have become relatively cheap and free software is abundant. If you’re reading this on the web, you can probably get access to a shell. Some op

Home | Evan McKinney Homepage

https://evm9.dev/

Superconducting Quantum Computers McKinney, E. , Xia, M., Zhou, C., Lu, P., Hatridge, M., Jones, A.K 2023 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (H
Evan McKinney’s personal homepage, a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh.

Rationale for a Large Text Compression Benchmark

http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html

humans are better than computers at speech recognition, language translation, reading, answering questions, etc., humans cannot compress text efficiently. This is true. However, I

Game Zero's PC Gaming- OS Highlights and History

https://www.gamezero.com/team-0/pc_games/op-sys.html

growing percentage of computers used for gaming. IBM released the DIVE (Direct Interface Video Extensions) that allow OS/2 to process graphics with the raw speed of your graphics

He Who Controls the Bootloader

http://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/

on consumer computers. There is no technical reason why CompUSA customers shouldn't be able to walk out of the shop with a machine that asks "Which OS do you want to use today?" u


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