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An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, diagrams from the early days of personal computing.
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Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
Last Update: October 17th, 2006
My first exposure to computers was at age 6 (1963), as a subject in
taken to a small room with what I now know was a CRT display and an intercom.
I was asked to push some keys in response to some shapes on the screen.
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Includes reprints of historical documents, Java applet emulator and source code, glossary and other resources.
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The Analytical Engine
All documents, programs, and downloadable software associated
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L. F. Menabrea, translated and with extensive commentary
by Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace. This 1842 document is the
definitive exposition of
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Computer visionary seeks to boost people's collective ability to confront complex problems coming at a faster pace. Medium-long story.
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Publication Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2001
Douglas Engelbart: Computer visionary seeks to boost people's collective ability to confront complex problems coming at a faster pace
D ouglas Engelbart is used to swimming upstream; he's been doing it for 50 years.
Even as the Atherton scientist
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Biography and photograph.
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Tommy Flowers built the first computer as a codebreaking device during the Second World War Flowers was a Londoner with a passion for electronics Having gained his degree in electronic engineering he went to work
> Tommy Flowers (1905-1998) : creating the colossus
Tommy Flowers (1905-1998) : creating the colossus Tommy Flowers built the first computer, as a codebreaking device during the Second World War.
Flowers was a Londoner with a passion for electronics. Having gained his degree in electronic
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Brief biography and two photographs.
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Born: New York, New York, December 9, 1906
Died: Arlington, Virginia, January 1, 1992
Pioneer Computer Scientist
T he new discipline of computing and the sciences that depend upon
it have led the way in making space for women's participation
on an equal basis. That was in some ways true for
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Fascinating facts about Grace Hopper inventor of the first computer compiler in 1952.
Fascinating facts about Grace
Hopper inventor of the first computer compiler in 1952.
Hopper (born Grace Brewster Murray)
1906 in New York, New York
1,1992 in Alexandria, Virginia
Grace Murray Hopper, American Navy officer, mathematician, and pioneer in data
processing, born in New York City
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Abstract, photo, for Ingalls lecture at Computer History Museum.
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3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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Smalltalk-80, the language from which Squeak is derived, traces its roots to
the famous beanbag chair culture of Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Developed by a team headed by
Dan Ingalls, Smalltalk was to be the supporting
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Cover story on the flat-screen iMac from Apple, along with a timeline of Steve Jobs' machines.
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PHOTOGRAPH FOR TIME BY MICHAEL O'NEILL
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Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk.
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Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums
Stewart Brand, 33, is a graduate of Standford (biology).
From 1968 to 1971 he edited the Whole Earth Catalog.
The first "Intergalactic spacewar olympics" will be held here,
Wednesday 19 October, 2000 hours.
First prize will be a year's
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Many quotes, Lisp emphasis. Bill Clementson's Weblog.
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Bits and pieces (mostly Lisp-related) that I collect from the ether.
The Most Important Idea in Computer Science
Friday, February 24, 2006
is a fascinating person. He once said "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." and he's
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