>From wiki
"The first Univac was accepted by the United States Census Bureau on
March 31, 1951, and was dedicated on June 14 that year.[3][4] "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_I
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The more I learn the better I understand I know nothing.
The EFF just published an article on the rise and fall of Gopher on
their Deeplinks blog.
"Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the
Gatekeepers' Fortresses"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperabil…
I thought it might be of interest to people here.
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Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se
“Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
A bit of history: on this day in 1941, Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the
world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
Pity it got destroyed when the joint was bombed...
-- Dave
[ COFF not TUHS ]
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 3:58 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> > National couldn't get it together to produce bug free chips or maybe
> > we'd all be running that, pretty nice architecture (in theory).
>
> I've always wondered if a Nat Semi NS32016 based system running in a PC/AT
> form factor had appeared that was priced like a PC/AT if that might have
> had a chance.
Acorn Computers made an odd machine consisting of a BBC micro with a 32016
second processor in a box. (It didn't run a unix-like OS, I'm afraid.) The
32016 was one of the CPUs that inspired the ARM, because its performance
was so terrible: it was not able to make good use of the available memory
bandwidth. (There wasn't a 68000 second processor because its interrupt
latency was too bad to drive the "tube" interface.)
http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/ACW.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers#New_RISC_architecture
Tony.
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f.anthony.n.finch <dot(a)dotat.at> https://dotat.at/
Malin, Southeast Hebrides: Cyclonic 4 to 6. Slight or moderate in
southeast, moderate or rough in northwest. Showers. Good, occasionally
poor.
I've got a number of DEC terminals, ranging from the VT220 to the VT520
(sadly, I got rid of my VT100 and VT102 many years ago, before I started
collecting DEC equipment instead of just using it), and some of them
have one or more burned out serial ports. Before I start taking them
apart to find out what chips were used, I figured I'd check if any of
you folks happen to know. I'd like to order a stash of replacements,
and it would be nice to have them handy before I clear the work bench to
start dismantling terminals...
Oh, and for the record: the Q-bus PDP-11/23 uses 9636ACP and 9637ACP for
output and input, respectively, while the VAX-11/630 substitutes a
9639ATC optocoupler for the 9637ACP differential receiver. (I have a
couple of spare CPU boards with damaged ports, as well, so these are all
on my shopping list already.)
-tih
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Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance
of Lisp. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. --Alan Kay
Re: [COFF] Happy birthday, the Internet!
> From: Jim Carpenter
> But even that isn't really correct, as the Internet is a network of
> networks and Arpanet was all alone.
Correct: the ARPANET was merely an ancestor (albeit an important one) of the
Internet. (The most important, in terms of technical influence, was CYCLADES,
"the key intermediate technical step between the ARPANET and the Internet".)
The ARPANET was later sort of subsumed into the Internet, as its original
long-haul backbone ("sort of" because the ARPANET's main protocol was
discarded, in doing so), but that's not too important.
If you want to select _a_ birthday for the Internet, I'd pick the day they
settled on the IPv4 packet format; we know when that was, it was the second
day of the 15/16 June, 1978 meeting (see IEN-68). I'm not wedded to that
date, if someone has a better suugestion (e.g. the firt PRNET to ARPNET test),
I'm open to hearing why the alternative's preferable.
Noel
Born on this day in 1969 with the publication of RFC-1 "Host Software" by
Steve Crocker, it basically specified the ARPAnet and the IMPs.
Oh, and it really peeves me when the stupid media call it "the internet";
it's a proper noun, hence is capitalised.
-- Dave
