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Or this, "Effort has been expended to make the textbook simple, redundant, and free from irrelevant formal remarks, no matter how interesting. It is our hope that the price paid in prolixity will be returned in ease of assimilation by readers with very little experience in systems programming."

14.05.2025 20:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Getting pretty excited to share our new online catalog with you pretty soon! We're cleaning data and going deeper with descriptions, as in, "This is intended as a reference manual and, therefore, does not contain much motivational discussion of the fundamental design." 😃

14.05.2025 20:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Item shows a digital photo matted in light blue and framed in gold, titled "Bridge 2" donated by Paul Shaf. CHM Object 102703864

Item shows a digital photo matted in light blue and framed in gold, titled "Bridge 2" donated by Paul Shaf. CHM Object 102703864

Good morning! Just taking a moment to make sure you realize that we like all kinds of researchers! Sure, hard science, traditional history of computing-- great! But we also support Digital Humanities research and artists! Come on in!

29.04.2025 17:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Young people, presumably college students, peruse written materials from Digital Equipment Corp's display on campus at Rochester Institute of Technology in 1983.

Young people, presumably college students, peruse written materials from Digital Equipment Corp's display on campus at Rochester Institute of Technology in 1983.

I wasn't trendy then, and I'm still not, but here are puffer jackets at RIT in 1983, when Digital Equipment Corp was on campus demonstrating products.

25.04.2025 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Typewritten page; black on white: NAMING GUIDELINES, which insists that full words are generally better than acronyms for filenames. "...Derive an acceptable name that is not too difficult to remember."

Typewritten page; black on white: NAMING GUIDELINES, which insists that full words are generally better than acronyms for filenames. "...Derive an acceptable name that is not too difficult to remember."

Good advice from 1987! Be clear in your filenaming, document your code, speak plainly and communicate well! Remember when there was an 8 character limit to filenames? Those were the days!
From CHM's Digital Equipment Corporation records, item 102750714.

22.04.2025 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Black and white illustration with exterior round frame reading "Grrrls Need Modems!" and a 1940's-era image of a woman wearing a telephone operator-type headset with microphone partially obscuring her lipsticked mouth.

Black and white illustration with exterior round frame reading "Grrrls Need Modems!" and a 1940's-era image of a woman wearing a telephone operator-type headset with microphone partially obscuring her lipsticked mouth.

From unprocessed collection (Efrem Lipkin & St. Jude Milhon), this is a fun sticker we found--

18.04.2025 15:32 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

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