Today: Dalle bombe in Italia a un impero da 2 miliardi: la missione di Amplifon, il re Mida dell'udito

La cura, spesso, nasce da un trauma. Anche per Amplifon, multinazionale italiana leader nella distribuzione degli apparecchi acustici, è stato così. L'azienda è stata fondata nell'immediato secondo dopoguerra da un militare britannico che negli ultimi anni del conflitto in Italia aveva assistito...

From the bombs in Italy to an empire worth 2 billion: Amplifon’s mission, the Midas of hearing.

The care, often, originates from trauma. This was also the case for Amplifon, an Italian multinational leader in the distribution of hearing aids. The company was founded in the immediate post-war period by a British military officer who had witnessed...

#Italy #Amplifon #Midas #Italian #British

https://www.today.it/dossier/economia/amplifon-apparecchi-acustici-udito-holland.html

Forbes zählt Rekord-Milliardäre: 3.428 Superreiche wie nie zuvor! KI-Boom treibt Vermögen auf Höchststände, Elon Musk bleibt an der Spitze. Mehr Details: https://www.n-tv.de/der_tag/Forbes-zaehlt-so-viele-Milliardaere-wie-noch-nie-id30454202.html #Milliardäre #Forbes #KIReichtum

Tja, wenn irgendwann die Welt eine tote, öde Wüstenlandschaft ist, könnt ihr euer Geld essen und trinken. #Midas

Repubblica.it: Trump e l'effetto Re Mida al contrario resusciteranno anche Sanchez?

Chi viene attaccato dal presidente americano, chi cerca lo scontro con lui, ottiene consenso; chi lo sostiene, ne esce indebolito

Will Trump and the reverse King Midas effect also revive Sanchez?

Whoever is attacked by the American president, whoever seeks a confrontation with him, gains support; whoever supports him, emerges weakened.

#Midas #Sanchez #American

https://www.repubblica.it/politica/rubriche/spin-off/2026/03/09/news/trump_effetto_re_mida_sanchez-425208831/

I'd previously been under the impression that the details of the #ARPANET IMP-to-IMP protocol (as opposed to the well documented #1822protocol for Host-to-IMP communications) had been lost, but it turns out that's not the case. In fact, it appears that in the last 15 years copies of multiple versions of the full source code for the #IMP software have been recovered by using OCR on hard copies. Much more information at https://walden-family.com/impcode/. I don't know the extent that the protocol itself has been reverse engineered from the code.

I love that this was written using #Midas, a programming language which was developed by a hospital. I think I did actually already know that, maybe from https://katiehafner.com/books-new/where-wizards-stay-up-late/ - presumably #BBN just used code they already had from an earlier consulting project.

Anyway - preserve your software projects. I'm sure many of the people doing this in the 60s and 70s didn't realise that what they were doing would be historically significant at the time.

#retrocomputing #computerhistory #softwarepreservation