WHERE OLD COMPUTERS ARE WELCOME
My personal path in the social network world started with the BBS with a 300 baud modem. It was the first tool with which I came into contact with people outside my circle of friends and acquaintances, that is non-physical people, but virtual if we want, hidden behind a nickname.
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John McAfee is a controversial figure in the computer scene.
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Yesterday or today, little change, is the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web.
Let's try to think of a world without internet or without WWW, do you succeed?
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Not only the magazines, but also the newsstands.
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Thermal, needle, daisy, inkjet, laser printers.
Raise your hand who knows the difference between a printer with descending and one without.
I was thinking about the evolution of human-computer interaction.
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He is the author of Music Construction Set for Appe II in 1984, just 17 years old. Ugh!
[more]Despite my 5 years of scientific high school and the I Analysis and II Analysis of Engineering exams, I have never used this function of trigonometry.
Today is a great day, finally the arctangent has found a purpose!
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Who was the first spammer? But above all, is there a first spammer?
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MicroSoft Disk Operating System is the operating system for the new IBM Personal Computer.
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One day the interaction between man and computer will no longer happen through keyboard and mouse, but simply by talking.
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This Taiwanese brand has participated in the history of computer science.
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The story of this company has always fascinated me because it was successful despite not having behind a Steve Jobs, nor a Bill Gates, but people with a winning idea and very simple: make a PC better than the IBM PC, so not a trivial clone, but a computer with something more.
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OS/2 is an operating system born from an idea of IBM to provide a new system to its new series of computers called Personal Computers /2.
IBM signs an agreement with Microsoft for a joint development of the new system, we are in April 1985.
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Before the computer era, the calculations were obviously done by hand using every tool available at the time, from the abacus, to the slide rule up to the manual mechanical calculators.
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Released in the late 70s, the Visicalc was the first truly successful software. [more]
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Alan Mathison Turing was born on June 23rd (my birthday too) of 1912 and died on June 7th, 1954 at only 41 years of age.
Alan Turing is considered today the father of modern computing, he talks about "algorithm" and introduces the concept of "program" when computers do not exist yet.
A visionary, a genius, tens of years ahead of his colleagues at the time. A mathematician, but he is also a physicist, biologist, chemist, neurologist and much more, all with the aim of building his machine that can learn. Yes, he already speaks of artificial intelligence.
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After a long wait, Lucio's book finally arrived on the NeXT world! But I did not read it immediately, I left it to look at myself for a few days, I wanted to taste it and then my sequential mind does not tolerate distractions, one book is read at a time!
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Today we can not imagine a computer without audio, unable to produce music or sounds.
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It could be the first digital camera accessible to the general public, it cost only $ 200.
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These are two commands that I have always found present in the various Basic versions of home and personal computers of the 80s.
"Peek" reads a memory location, "Poke" instead allows writing a value to a memory location.
Is it now possible to control the lives of a group of people through the use of computers and related technology that is currently available or will be available in the foreseeable future?
Certainly.
Creative Computing Sep-Oct 1978
Many futurist believe that someday telecomputing will be the primary use for home computers - an integral part of every modern household.
You've probably already heard the predictions about home banking, home shopping, "electronic newspapers," telegames, and on-line encyclopedias and data bases.
Actually, all of these services are available today, though perhaps not in all areas, or in an affordable or mature form.
But times are changing fast.
From Compute! Gazzette September 1983
Do you remember your first hour with your first computer?
Do you remember how it went? Were you happy or was it like when the first microwave arrived?
The idea for this article came to me when I saw this IBM brochure:
1. How complete is the computer system?
2. Is powerful system software available?
3. Is the system easy to expand?
4. Is the computer well-engineered?
5. Does it have proven reliability?
6. Does it have good factory support?
7. Are maintenance and service people accessible?
Closing the eyes and reading the characteristics of this thing, it seems to read the advertising of remote control for the WII.
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Some time ago, I wrote something about the Apple II and its clones.
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Today I found myself in front of this advertisement.
The first program you should buy.
The last one ... the first program that writes programs!
What do I mean by clones?
I'm always talking about computers, of course, a clone is a computer "similar" to another.
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June 1986, Clive Sinclair sells its company to Amstrad due to debts.
It's the end of a long story, if you want, only a handful of years, but what weight it has had!
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If you do not know what it is or you've never used it, then you've lost a piece of the brief history of the personal computer.
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Fonte: http://adtpro.com/lc.html
Over the years many software emulators have been developed for our old computers, we can emulate the good Apple ][ even on mobile phones.
There are software emulators ranging from the old bar console to the IBM 360 mainframe.
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Another anecdote about Steve Jobs.
The famous mania of manic control has also affected the choice of font names.
Susan Kare tells us that she was creating many fonts and there was therefore the problem of finding an interesting name to assign to them.
In agreement with Andy Hertzfeld, they had therefore chosen the stops of a train that knew well the times of high school, names like: Overbrook, Merion, Ardmore etc.
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I can not believe Sir Clive Sinclair punching in a pub!
Yet it seems all true, he got into a fight with Chris Curry, his former employee, but then became head of Acorn Computers.
It seems that Clive did not like some comparative advertising between Sinclair computers and Acorn computers.
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How will our IT future be?
Will it be a world full of robots and computers?
Will artificial intelligence become a reality?
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Is the computer male?
Is the computer stuff like a man?
In my professional programming experience, I've certainly met more males than females, but I've never noticed it.
It's an article that made me think, why the computer, intended as programming, do not like women?
I found an article, from Sinclair User Magazine November 1983, in which Sinclair signed an agreement to supply ZX-81 and Spectrum to China, so that they can develop their own computer industry.
[more]I came across a couple of articles that I found interesting to the point of bringing them to your attention.
The articles are from December 1982 and March 1983, so really prehistoric stuff.
In practice in the first article Chris Reynolds, a university professor of "computer science", asserts that home computers do not create future IT experts, but future unemployed. He comes to say that: "the computer and the games at home will keep the unemployed future pleasantly engaged".
[more]Rick Dickinson (more here)
Let's see how many of you know him, leave a comment if you know who he is, before proceeding obviously!
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I started this site many years ago. At all, the only source of information was to have the paper in hand, ie the manuals, from which to find the technical data of the machines. For the photos you had to own that specific computer. I go for brochures, advertisements etc.
Today, there is much more network information, technology has evolved, photos are more beautiful, pdf manuals are file sizes that can not be managed just a few years ago with modems at 9600, 14400, or the legendary 56000.
All the information, documents, photos I've collected over the years or that I've been sent by the users are all available on the site. Every now and then I find myself around other sites of my computer photos, the marble floor chosen by me seems to be unique :-), no problem, though there is no indication of where this photo was taken. The rule for me is just this: if you do not want to put it on the net, you can not put it on it. Put it and then write "Forbidden Reproduction" or other strange words, it's a total waste of time and even a contradiction.
It's amazing and out of my understanding that there are then sites, with recipe engine and then full archives, that show you their beautiful search page, let you search for what you are interested in, and also present you the answer page with something of the type "We found 24 documents in our archive". And then they ask you suspect question: "Do you want to see them?" Sure I want to see what I came here to do?
When you click on the phrase "Do you want to see it?", You will see a form to fill in to make an appointment to see their archive, physically, if they allow you ... Incredible!
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tech Model Railroad Club (better known as MIT) was attended by very special characters.
They were usually not very tall, not athletic, many of them wearing glasses and they were most likely to have a calculator rule in their pockets (we are in the late 1950's, pocket calculators are not there yet).
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Apple 1 and support service
These days a friend of mine told me about her vicissitudes when buying a new LCD TV.
In fact, in the electronics store, a famous chain, is first ignored by the pre-sales clerk and then mistreated at the cashier because he simply asked to open the box to verify the integrity of the content.
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I have published a number of magazines in this last period.
I usually browse all magazines that are public in search of articles, photos and advertising.
This time I found, on Dr. Dobb's Journal of 1977 November / December, a Jef Raskin article that tests the Poly 88 of Polymorphic Systems.
The article itself is interesting because it speaks of a little known machine, but in the article Raskin also speaks of the Altair 8800 and the IMSAI 8080.
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The Making of Macintosh (Part 4)
Based on “Apple Confidential 2.0” by Owen W. Linzmayer
« The Mac is meant to supplant the PC on the desks of corporate America, just as the PC supplanted our own Apples over the last 18 months. » John Sculley
« Adam Osborne (founder of Osborne Computer Corp, editor’s note) is always dumping on Apple. […] He started getting under my collar so much that I told him, ‘Adam, [the Mac]'s so good that even after it puts your company out of business, you’ll still want to go out and buy it for your kids’.» Steve Jobs
Finally, after spending $78 million in development costs, Apple introduced the Macintosh to a packed house at the annual shareholder meeting held in the Flint Center at De Anza College on January 24, 1984. [more]
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The Making of Macintosh (Part 3)
Based on “Apple Confidential 2.0” by Owen W. Linzmayer
« [Jobs] would try to push himself into everything. No matter what you were doing, he had to have something to do with it. Nobody of Apple wanted him involved with their projects. I had started the Macintosh team and we didn’t want him either. » Jef Raskin
« The standard way [Jobs] operated was picking your brain. He would immediately poo-poo the idea, then a week later, he’d come back and say, ‘Hey, I’ve got a great idea!’ The idea that he gave back to you was your own. We called him the Reality Distortion Field. » Jef Raskin
In September 1980, the board of directors wanted to cancel the Macintosh project to concentrate on getting the Lisa project under control, but Raskin pleaded for and won a three-month reprieve. [more]
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The Making of Macintosh (Part 2)
Based on “Apple Confidential 2.0” by Owen W. Linzmayer
Every feature of the Mac required a trade-off between price and performance.
By September 27, 1979, a preliminary cost investigation revealed that Raskin’s proposed Macintosh by no means could sell for the initial target price of $500. A more realistic figure was $1500 for a fully loaded Mac. On October 2, Jobs told Raskin: “Don’t worry about price, just specify the computer’s abilities”. [more]
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The Making of Macintosh (Part 1)
Based on “Apple Confidential 2.0” by Owen W. Linzmayer
http://biografieonline.it/biografia-jef-raskin
Steve Jobs and the Macintosh are inextricably linked in the minds of most people. So it may come as somewhat of a surprise to learn that the Mac was not his idea at all. In fact, he actually wanted to kill the project in its infancy. Luckily for Apple and millions of dedicated Mac users everywhere, he wasn’t successful.
The true father of the Macintosh was Jeffrey Frank “Jef” Raskin, a professor turned computer consultant. In the spring of 1979, Jobs was still working on the Lisa, a more business oriented PC, but the company was looking for a lower- cost product than the Apple II which was selling for more than $1000.
« […], there was this thing that I’d be dreaming of for some time which I called Macintosh. The biggest thing about it was that it would be designed from a human factors perspective, which at that time was totally incomprehensible. » Jef Raskin.
[more]Welcome to the Micro Age Part 3
« Let us for a moment consider the microcomputer as a creature of awareness.
Without certain electronic components present in a computer to make it respond to the human user, it would seem dumb indeed. Content to blink its lights at you forever, the computer won’t even acknowledge your presence unless it has been programmed to do so.
One reason for this is that the majority of microprocessors do not have a built-in memory; calculations can be done, but other devices must be attached to the processor so that the results can be remembered, recalled and displayed for use by humans. The bare-bones computer has awareness but no understanding or learned memory. [more]
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WELCOME TO THE MICRO AGE Part 2
« A computer can perform arithmetic and logic (decision-making) operations and communicate the results to other devices more easily accessible to humans, such as a TV screen or typewriter.
A computer follows commands (called “software”) given it by its operator. Connected to electronic memory banks and peripheral devices such as a printer, modifies TV set and magnetic disk recorder, the computer is capable of performing complex tasks such as maintaining a current inventory, text editing, computing personal taxes, playing Star Trek or Chess, and even creating unique music and graphic compositions. Recent advances allow microcomputers to even talk and understand vocal commands.
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WELCOME TO THE MICRO AGE Part 1
Nowadays we are so accustomed to carrying tiny but powerful computers in our pockets (i.e. our smartphones), that we may forget about the time when computers could fill entire rooms and had a significantly lower computing power than a single iPhone.
The history of the personal computer as mass-market consumer electronic devices effectively started in 1977 with the introduction of microcomputers.
Now I would like to go back to that exciting time, the late seventies, when personal computers first appeared on the scene and take a closer look at how journalists, who witnessed firsthand the transition, introduced this affordable new technology to the public and explained its immense potential. Here follows an extract from the magazine "Byte Shopper", Spring 1978, Issue N. 3:
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The world is moving so fast ! New technologies are being developed everyday... such at a fast pace that we really can't appreciate the full potential of each and every new technology. Bluetooh, usb, firewire, wi-fi, adsl, hdsl, shdsl, mp3, divx... and so on. Are we sure that, before we develop a new technology, we have reached the full maturity of the old one ?
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One of the first Fortran programs.
The following program, written by Backus, is taken from the programmer's FORTRAN manual. The program reads N numbers and calculates the maximum. [more]
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Have you ever thought about icons ?
In this period I am reading books on the history of the Apple.
Today starts1000BiT's blog.
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