Paolo AmorosoA history and bibliography of the Mesa programming language and system, its precursors, and the environment where it originated at Xerox PARC. It's an interesting account of a period of active experimentation with concepts such as modular languages and control constructs.
Ed EverettLazy toot:
There was website I remember but can't find, that collected all the demos from XeroX PARC in a nice to explore way. Anywone else remember it?
Videospielgeschichten„COSTA“ – Unser erster eigener Computerclub
Mitte der 1980er Jahre finden Computer in den deutschen Haushalten eine immer größere Verbreitung. Die Zeiten, in denen Computer-User als „Freaks“ abgestempelt wurden, sind vorbei.
https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/costa-unser-erster-eigener-computerclub/
#520ST_ #Apple #Atari #Basic #Club #Commodore #Commodore64 #COSTA #DungeonMaster #Elite #Falcon030 #GEM #Lisa #Macintosh #MSDOS #PublicDomain #UltimaII #Windows95 #XeroxPARC
ITs History!Chuck Geschke was a #XeroxPARC employee, #pioneer of #computergraphics, #WYSIWYG, and page-description languages. As co-founder of Adobe Systems, father of #PostScript and #PDF-files* the impact of his work is literally everywhere. (*not to be confused with pedophiles like Jeffrey Epstein)
In this oral history session he's talking about the Jesuit order, #Xerox, #InterPress, #vectorgraphics, #DTP, and...
https://youtu.be/dlx7sGG4lxo
Our #portrait of him is made in #SVG #vector #graphics with #Inkscape, of course. Even the female #demographics are #traced by hand in this amazing tool of #FreeSoftware & #FreeDownload. NO #ToS-scams, NO #creativecloudBS, NO #AI, NO obstacles for YOUser's to be #creative — here...
https://inkscape.org
In this oral history session he's talking about the Jesuit order, #Xerox, #InterPress, #vectorgraphics, #DTP, and...
https://youtu.be/dlx7sGG4lxo
Our #portrait of him is made in #SVG #vector #graphics with #Inkscape, of course. Even the female #demographics are #traced by hand in this amazing tool of #FreeSoftware & #FreeDownload. NO #ToS-scams, NO #creativecloudBS, NO #AI, NO obstacles for YOUser's to be #creative — here...
https://inkscape.org
Oral History of Chuck Geschke, part 1 of 2
Paolo AmorosoHow the developers of Bravo at Xerox PARC overcame the limitations of Alto to design the first WYSIWYG editor and make it run efficiently.
forrestoI've seen this image a bunch (70s kid programmers at PARC), but now I want to find the source of the posters on the wall behind the computer.
Image source: https://computerhistory.org/blog/introducing-the-smalltalk-zoo-48-years-of-smalltalk-history-at-chm/
jbzᐅ The Alternate Reality Kit
The Alternate Reality Kit
NAM-IP Computer MuseumRemembering Lynn Conway for her pioneering work leading to VLSI and her personal fight against transgender discrimination
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/14/rip-lynn-conway-whose-work-gave-us-vlsi-and-much-more
https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/LynnsStory.html
#VLSI #computerhistory #conway #transgender #ibm #xeroxparc #womenincomputing
Robin CA remarkable life: "Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 86".
Eric VitielloTIL why the default Ethernet MTU is 1500!
#Ethernet #ComputerHistory #XeroxAlto #XeroxPARC
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/04/24/magic-numbers/