Silicium13h ago
Lundi, jour de benchmark humain 🧠
L’Entraineur Cérébral COEUS LJ-609-1 n’est pas un gadget.
C’est un héritier des systèmes de calcul conçus pour augmenter l’humain.
Du #silicium au neurone, même combat.
#RetroComputing #BrainTraining #TechHistory #Neuro
Show threadpflegende1d ago

@senf @dm2lct

Dank für die Ehre, die uns zu Teil wurde, das Booten der EAW Maschine am Frtg. mit erleben zu dürfen.

Danke auch dafür!

Das #Rechenwerk birgt unvergleichliche Schätze,
- an Hardware
- an singulärer Software
- an singulärer Dokumentation
- ganz spezifischem Know-How, unersetzbarem Zeitzeugenwissen und
- großartigem Engagement
👏

#Retrocomputing #Vintagecomputing
#ITArchaeology
#Techhistory

#Robotron
#DDR #CLT
#Industriehistorie

CU an der #Chemnitz
28.-29.3.
😊👋

Hacker News1d ago

Microsoft's Year 2000 Resource Center CD

https://huguesjohnson.com/programming/y2k/

#HackerNews #Microsoft #Y2K #Resource #Center #CD #TechHistory #Nostalgia #Programming #News

Microsoft's Year 2000 Resource Center CD

Preparing developers for the end of the world.

N-gated Hacker News3d ago
🖥️ Ah, yes, the riveting tale of how spreadsheets—those glorified tables that haunt our work lives—came to be. #VisiCalc, the "GameBoy game" of its time, apparently revolutionized #computing with its primitive charm and jaw-dropping 16K RAM requirement. 🙄 One can only imagine the thrill of rebuilding a 1979 relic while the rest of us are busy enjoying the luxury of actual modern technology. 😂
https://zserge.com/posts/visicalc/ #spreadsheets #techhistory #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
VisiCalc reconstructed

Building a minimal VisiCalc clone from scratch in C to understand how spreadsheets work.

Scott McCarty3d ago
Every major tech shift triggers "death of X" predictions. PCs were supposed to kill mainframes. E-commerce was supposed to kill retail. Streaming was supposed to kill Hollywood. Every time, the result was expansion, not elimination.
Steven Sinofsky argues AI and software development will follow the same pattern — more software, not less. Domain expertise becomes more valuable, not less.
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/238-death-of-software-nah
#AI #SoftwareEngineering #TechHistory #OpenSource
1EYE Review3d ago

Changhong H2
(2016)

Pirmasis telefonas pasaulyje su integruotu molekuliniu skeneriu. Tai vienas iš tų prietaisų, kurie atrodo kaip mokslinė fantastika, bet iš tikrųjų egzistavo.

5,5 colio Full HD IPS ekranas, Qualcomm Snapdragon 652, 4GB RAM, 64GB vidinės atminties (plečiama microSD iki 128GB), 16MP pagrindinė kamera, 8MP priekinė kamera, Android 6.0 su Changhong UI, GSM/HSPA/LTE, Wi-Fi ac, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, A-GPS, integruotas molekulinis skeneris (NIR spektrometras), 3000 mAh Li-Ion baterija (iki 10 val. pokalbių, 300 val. budėjimo), dydis 154×77×8,5 mm, svoris 168 g.

Nugarėlėje esantis SCiO sensorius pasiunčia šviesos spindulį į objektącir atsispindėjęs analizuoja molekulinę vibraciją. Per kelias sekundes telefonas pasakydavo: kiek saldus vaisius, koks jo kaloringumas ar maistas jūsų yra tikras, ar klastotė. Taip pat galėjo išmatuoti kūno riebalų procentą tiesiog priglaudus jį prie odos.

#retrofaktai #1eyereview #TechHistory #SmartTechEvolution #retromobile #retrophones #ChanghongH2 #MolecularScanner

Silicium3d ago

La Philips P254 (1972) rappelle une époque où la technologie imposait le respect.
Pas d’annulation, pas d’automatisation.
Chaque opération comptait.
“faire un calcul” était un événement.

#RetroComputing #DigitalSobriety #TechHistory #VintageElectronics #FOSSCommunity

TechLİfe4d ago

Cleaning the Slate: The Radical Engineering Behind Python 3.0 - The Story of Python Series - 1

https://techlife.blog/posts/cleaning-the-slate-the-radical-engineering-behind-python-3-0-the-story-of-python-series-1/

#Python #Python3 #Programming #SoftwareHistory #TheStoryOfPython #OpenSource #TechHistory #Developer #CodingLife

Cleaning the Slate: The Radical Engineering Behind Python 3.0 - The Story of Python Series - 1

Python 3 deliberately shattered backward compatibility to fix years of design debt. Here's what changed, why it hurt, and why it was totally worth it.

TechLife
Silicium4d ago

Le Psion Organizer II (1986) est souvent sous-estimé dans l’histoire de l’informatique.
📟
Pourtant, il proposait :
un système programmable (OPL)
des applications intégrées (agenda, data)
un stockage amovible
Une vraie vision de l’ordinateur personnel mobile, bien avant les PDA et smartphones.

Un objet culte pour les amateurs de rétro-informatique. Connaisiez-vous ?

#RetroComputing #Psion #TechHistory #OpenComputing #GeekCulture

N-gated Hacker News4d ago
🐢🎂 Oh, #Eniac, you ancient relic, still causing 403 #errors from beyond the grave. 🎉 Nothing says "Happy 80th!" like your inability to be accessed or remembered without a #server meltdown. 🔥🖥️
https://spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-80-ieee-milestone #80th #Birthday #TechHistory #DigitalRelics #HappyBirthday #HackerNews #ngated
ENIAC, the General-Purpose Digital Computer, Is 80

80 years ago, ENIAC changed the world. How did this massive machine pave the way for today's digital age?

IEEE Spectrum