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Fifty years of the personal computer operating system
Fifty years ago, PC software pioneer Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system.
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The forgotten war on beepers
30 years before parents and lawmakers sought to save youth from smartphones via age limits and bans in schools, a similar conversation took place about a pre-cursor to the cellphone: pagers Through the 1980s pagers became increasingly popular with teens, and also:
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Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing
It basically falls under the de minimis rule.
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Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps
A lot of computing got done even before we had stacks and heaps.
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IBM 360’s are searching for a new home
Hello! If you’re still here reading this blog, I’m impressed. We haven’t posted anything of note for some years now and frankly, thats because we haven’t done anything of note with the project. The machines have been sitting in their home, virtually untouched, for 4 years now. Chris & I (Adam) are just too busy with…
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On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV
The Mystery of Numerical Notation on the Dial Plate - 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV
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Exploring Bauhaus: Revolutionary design school that shaped modern world
Bauhaus was a german art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that transcended traditional boundaries, boldly embracing the fusion of form and function. The founder of the school, Walter Gropius, believed in the "fundamental unity of the arts" and he anticipated the challenges that 20th-ce
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A woman named "Steve" – IT pioneer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (2019)
Among computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley is one of the most celebrated for building a $3 billion empire in the 1960s with an all-female staff.
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David Holladay, blindness technology pioneer, has died
This week brings sad news for our Duxbury Systems family. Our colleague, David Holladay, passed away in a hospital on Thursday, February 15th, following an accident at home that morning. David was a cancer survivor and valiantly battled multiple medical problems over his last five years.
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Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
Learn how one of the biggest tech companies played a major role in the reason many people stopped using RSS feeds
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Moore's Scofflaws
The tyranny of per-core licensing.
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Nokia made too many phones
TextQuery is a desktop app to import data file as a table, query it using SQL.
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It Can Be Done (2003)
A story about quality from the development of the Multics operating system.
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How SSH port became 22 (2017)
The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.
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Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
The 2000-year-old scroll discusses music, food, and how to enjoy life’s pleasures.
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An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)
Want to know more about a tool in our web archiving toolbox? Your suggestions or questions for future posts about Archive-It technology are very welcome here .
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CRT Manufacturing
Explore CRT lamp history at vintageTEK. View TekTalk and TekWeek articles, photos, and PDFs documenting CRT lamp and gun assembly production.
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1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets
1100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets from 1956 on the interactive NukeMap. Choose a city and a bomb size, and detonate. See what happens.
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The $500M Dollar Typo
It's amazing how a series of small but unfortunate events can quickly add up to one very expensive problem. Like the time one person fat-fingered the wrong year on a mainframe JCL job, Ronald Reagan died, and the US postal service lost $500 million.
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John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)
When a country parson first described black holes in 1783, the concept was so ahead of its time it was mostly ignored.
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30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland
Fossils of a new group of animal predators have been located in the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality in North Greenland. These large worms may be some of the earliest carnivorous animals to have colonised the water column more than 518 million years ago, revealing a past dynasty of predators that…
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Nintendo Network shutdown – The beginning of the end
Information regarding Nintendo's rollout of the Nintendo Network shutdown
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A closer look at the Tabula Peutingeriana
This map story is about one specific map, the only one remaining from the Roman …
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart (2021)
A club for Meccano enthusiasts in London, holding four meetings each year and a public Meccano Show in Falconwood.
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Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
Center for the Study of the Public Domain2023368 points208 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of Mickey Mouse, will enter the United States public domain. The first…