COFF June 2022

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Re: [TUHS] "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS topic?

by Michael Kjörling

On 30 Jun 2022 23:14 +1000, from sjenkin(a)canb.auug.org.au (steve jenkin): > What are the 1970’s & 1980’s Computing / IT skills “our grandkids won’t have”? Tediously typing computer programs into their (or others') systems from listings in printed magazines bought in and brought home from a store (by which I mean the physical, brick-and-mortar kind), only to spend anywhere from minutes to days figuring out why the program doesn't do what the magazine says it will, if it even works at all. This thread should probably be on COFF, not TUHS. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

3 years

Ken Knowlton has died.

by Dan Cross

Sad news: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/technology/ken-knowlton-dead.html

3 years

Status of classiccmp.org - take two

by Tomasz Rola

Alas, it seems like classiccmp.org is no good again. This time, when I open it, some dialog box pops up asking for a word. In the background below it, there seems to be something like a web panel... -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola@bigfoot.com **

3 years

Status of classiccmp.org?

by Warren Toomey

All, does anybody know the status of classiccmp.org? It's been down for a few days and I'm already missing the cctalk list. If it's a issue of hosting, and someone has Jay West's e-mail address, then I could host the list on minnie. I've just done the mailman3 upgrade with mailman2 running concurrently to provide old-school list archives. I'd be happy to give Jay access to the system. Cheers, Warren

3 years

A talk on the origin of Colossus

by David Barto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCeLTWPCEFI At about 45 minutes it is interesting history about early computing. The Computer History Museum has released 21 videos from a 1976 conference. https://computerhistory.org/playlists/international-research-conference-on-… I’ve only watched the one, and I’m sure the others are interesting as well. David

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