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Computer Almanac - Numbers About Computers

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/numbers/

of numbers relevant to computers, along with references. It serves as a "Computer Almanac." These are useful for including in articles and speeches. This list is updated periodica

Basics of Computers Tutorial - wsxdn.com

http://wsxdn.com/

rules, and mechanical computers. They have played their respective historical roles in different historical periods, and also inspired the development of modern electronic compute
Short Questions and Answers on Computer Hardware and Software.

Computers I have used

http://www.bobeager.uk/ihaveused.html

bobeager.uk Computers I have used Home Links Books Papers Talks Anecdotes UniKent memories Humour Projects Hacks Computers I have used Messages from the Future Famous People Softw

Whetstone, a Calm OS

https://hunterirving.com/blog/whetstone

and quiet, unobtrusive computers comfortably co-existed. In their prophetic 1996 essay The Coming Age of Calm Technology , Marc Weiser and John Seely Brown spoke of a time when ti

The Nascom Home Page

http://nascomhomepage.com/

on and I bought more computers but didn't stop using my CP/M Nascom 2/Gemini hybrid system until I bought my first PC (around 1994). However thanks to CP/M emulators and vnascom I

T3X.ORG index

http://t3x.org/

cards and mainframe computers. All source code from the book is in the public domain.   Write Your Own Retro Compiler Study the complete source code for a self-hosting compil

"That Deep Romantic Chasm": Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, and the Computer Culture

https://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/romantic_chasm.html

of the culture of computers. On the one hand, this essay confirms and elaborates an argument made or suggested by others, notably by Barbrook and Cameron in "The Californian Ideol

The Early History Of Smalltalk

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

interactive time-shared computers, graphics screens and pointing devices. Advanced computer languages were invented to simulate complex systems such as oil refineries and semi-int

Terminals - MCbx

http://oldcomputer.info/terminal/

with one machine. First computers used teletypes as input/output devices. They quickly evolved to printing serial terminals - electronic printers with keyboards. Finally, display

What Is The Cloud?

http://toastytech.com/about/thecloud.html

mainframes, and minicomputers. What clustering meant is that a single machine node in a cluster could go down, and other machine nodes would take over. End users would still be ab

Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share

https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm

human communication, computers need a common set of conventions in order to share information. The history of networked computing is rich with stories about developing protocols.

Voyager Spacecraft and Fortran 5

http://www.geonius.com/writing/other/voyager.html

the Voyager onboard computers were not programmed in Fortran. My background: I'm a retired software developer. In the 1980s, I worked on the image processing ground system for NAS
Voyagers NOT programmed in Fortran 5


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