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OTD 1961: Burroughs announces the B5000 computer.

Transcript from a 1985 conference about the B5000 here: conservancy.umn.edu/...

Don't miss "History of Tabulating Machines - talley sticks ... to electronics"

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Ever wonder about the state of Data Processing before the computer?

Behold "The Punched Card" - 200 glorious pages from 1952 describing the state of the art of electro-mechanical paper pushing!

With fabulous fifties art and culture!

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ENIAC in Action Conceived in 1943, completed in 1945, and decommissioned in 1955, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first general-purpose prog...

80 years ago today: ENIAC revealed!
This is a great book about ENIAC:

This is amazing. Actually all of Rob’s stuff is amazing, but this is 50%more amazing than the last amazing thing. 😅😁👍

A empresa Apollo Computer Inc de 1980 Gostou? Curta, comente e compartilhe a publicação original! Ajude a divulgar o projeto! Deixe seu comentário no final desta postagem!Em 13 de fevereiro de 1980, no estado de Massachusetts/EUA, William Poduska fundava formalmente (por incorporação) a empresa Apollo Computer, uma das precursoras das estações de trabalho.  Criada dois anos antes da cultuada Sun Microsystems, a […]

OTD 1980: Apollo Computer incorporated.

Solar power utility truck with the brand "Semper Solaris"

Semper #Solaris

Beginning to scan some of my telecom stuff.
Here's an ATT map from 1893.

Friendly neighborhood unicorn!

ENIAC Day Celebration Feb. 15th - 80 years!
Near Philly. Wish I could be there.

www.helicoptermuseum...

Wow, love this👾

Every American needs to watch this:

Bill Gates gets "attacked" in Belgium, circa 1999 Bill Gates Pie in Face

Is it a coincidence that Ken Thompson's birthday (1998) was the same day that Bill Gates got a pie in the face?

Tom Lyon holding programming contest award at the console of an NCR Century 100 computer.

Me circa 1972 at the console of an NCR Century 100.
See akapugs.blog/2018/05...

Jan 30, 2025 - It's Doug Engelbart's 100th birthday! We're celebrating online free-range style with some gems from his remarkable legacy.
Join Us: dougengelbart.org/Dougs-100th

OTD 2021: Twitter acquires the remnants of DriveScale.
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*My* TCL was "Tube Control Language" - part of Amdahl's UTS UNIX system. TCL was a small language extension to C for automating control of otherwise interactive programs/connections -- which in the IBM world meant screen-scraping horrible 3270 terminal data.

Who would've *expected* that?
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A tale of 2 TCLs.

Ousterhout's TCL (nee Tool Command Language) is a simple scripting language dating from 1986 or so. The killer app for TCL was 'expect', which is for automating control of otherwise interactive programs/connections.

But circa 1980...
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Tried to pay estimated tax via IRS Webpay site. (I know, 1% problem)
I've done this many times before, but this year it doesn't work on Chrome! - either Linux or Chomebook - cookies cleared.

Worked on iPad/Safari. Scum weasels!

Turing Awardee Clips - YouTube The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” carries a $1 million prize, with financial support provided by Google, Inc. I...

Discovered this cool Youtube channel today.
Brief highlights from interviews with ACM Turing award winners.

2020 From punched cards to SmartNICS - A Personal Journey Originally a series of 7 blog posts from DriveScale. Helpfully edited by Sharad Mehrotra

DPUs, GPUs, Smart NICs, offloads, Front-ends, ... nothing ever really changes.

See "From Punched Cards to SmartNICS - A Personal Journey" from 2020. Oldie but goodie.

In Memoriam: Remembering Mike Flynn Michael J. Flynn is a widely respected contributor—indeed a giant—in the field of Computer Architecture.  He made highly significant and impactful contributions throughout his career, both in indus…

R.I.P. Mike Flynn, processor architect and professor.
One of the designers of the awesome IBM 360 model 91.

Stewart Cheifet Obituary December 28, 2025 - Goldsteins Funeral View Stewart Cheifet's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Aw man 😞 Rest in peace Mr Cheifet, host of Computer Chronicles: obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...

What a legend. His work in both presenting and preserving the early days of computer history has been (and will continue to be) deeply appreciated! My condolences to his family and friends.

Found my great-great-grandparents in the Odd Fellows cemetery in Gonzales, Texas. I definitely got the odd gene.
The Orts' came from northern Germany, near Denmark.

Born this day, 1903: John von Neumann, polymath (from Mars?)

Great book - fictionalized biography with stories about JvN told by other famous people: "The MANIAC"

en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Fruity, nutty, sweet; and a little goes a long way.
Kinda like fruitcake in a bottle.

The Malmsey is better, but couldn't find it this year.

Merry Christmas!
In a huge family, "under the tree" takes on non-Euclidean meaning.

The RESISTORS: Teen Hackers Who Saw and Lived the Future of Computing In the 1960s, before PCs and the Internet were a thing, the RESISTORS were O.G. computer hackers, learning to code on old mainframes in a New Jersey barn.

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S: high school hackers from the 60s and 70s. I've known a bunch of these folks - smart cookies.

OTD 1983: EOL of the awesome IBM 3330 disk.

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