I met another Turing award winner last night - Martin Hellman. I've known Whit Diffie since Sun days, so now I know both halves of the public key/private key pair pair. 😉
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OTD 2013: My final startup, DriveScale, is incorporated.
Technical preso: www.usenix.org/sites...
OTD 1975: First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
See
A personal history about #AppleTalk and #SunMicrosystems
akapugs.blog/2020/03...
#MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk
OTD 1986 (40 years!): #SunMicrosystems goes public.
Scan of Red Herring with lots of facts and figures:
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Behold the mighty CDC 405 punched card reader - 1200 cards/minute vacuum fed from a vibrating bed.
My first input device!
Crying now. Please watch this.
And thank you Tom for reminding us.
From an early Nokia GSM ad?
Can anyone translate?
OTD 1980: First meeting of the IEEE 802 standards committee.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.
Long form "portrait" of Ivan Sutherland - extraordinary computing pioneer & mentor.
OTD 1975, Digital announces the #PDP-11/70.
With up to 4 Megabytes(!) of memory.
Princeton's PDP-11/45 had 80K bytes of memory. Ran UNIX just fine.
OTD 1982: The founding of #SunMicrosystems.
They are delivered via Kobo with DRM, but the Calibre/Obok de-drm plugin worked great for me.
Before transistors, relays were widely used in telephony switches. They were much slower, but much more reliable than vacuum tubes.
This 1951 booklet, "NO. 5 CROSSBAR" from Bell Labs describes the bad-ass mainframe of relays. Lots of photos and diagrams.
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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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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. 😅😁👍
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:
Is it a coincidence that Ken Thompson's birthday (1998) was the same day that Bill Gates got a pie in the face?
