Mastodawn

@vivdunstan Yeah! #Hyperland also found it’s way to the Internet Archive >> https://archive.org/details/HyperlandBBSDouglasAdamsAndTomBaker1990

#HistoryOfHypertext #HistoryOfComputing

Hyperland BBS Douglas Adams And Tom Baker ( 1990) : Douglas Adams : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Hyperland is a 50-minute long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies. It was written by Douglas Adams and produced and directed...

Internet Archive

ResearchBuzz: Firehose 2d ago

Tom’s Hardware: Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources. “The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available for anyone to read, download, and tinker with. NASA’s Chris Garry made the code available on GitHub as public domain. The published […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/17/toms-hardware-original-apollo-11-code-open-sourced-by-nasa-original-command-module-and-lunar-module-code-repos-are-now-public-domain-resources/

Tom’s Hardware: Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources

Tom’s Hardware: Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources. “The historic computer software code …

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

This Grandpa Blogs 2d ago

How did PCs take over the world? Fire in the Valley breaks down the early battles, bold ideas, and big personalities behind Apple, Microsoft, and the tech revolution.
#Books #BookTokTech #HistoryOfComputing #TechNerd

Dyalog Mar 10

If you are in the Toronto, Canada, area on Thursday 12 March, why not spend the afternoon (15:45-17:30 EDT ) at a panel discussion on the history of academic computing in Canada? Hosted by York University, APL is likely to feature – their “York APL” implementation helped spread APL’s academic use in the 1970s. Reserve your place at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/computing-at-york-the-beginning-tickets-1983888703517 #Dyalog #APL #HistoryOfComputing

Computing at York: the Beginning

Exhibit features York computer artifacts, archival photos, and vintage hardware, highlighting early campus computing and its evolution.

Eventbrite

This Grandpa Blogs Mar 5

How did PCs take over the world? Fire in the Valley breaks down the early battles, bold ideas, and big personalities behind Apple, Microsoft, and the tech revolution.
#BookTokTech #HistoryOfComputing #TechNerd #books

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Michael Roberts Feb 3

A brief word of explanation - this is an old, old website, #historyofcomputing on the hoof, and a lot of stuff doesn't work. The last time I published to it was 2014, and even that was an attempt at revival after it had lain dormant since 2009. Some of it dates back to 1997 or so.

Everything pertinent to Jumbo works. Everything else is ... well. Don't bother notifying me of things that don't work, let's put it that way.

It's a miracle the blog works again, honestly.

Michael Roberts Feb 3

I'm halfway through a reimplementation of Douglas Hofstadter's 1982 program Jumbo, the first implementation of his parallel terraced scan, and I've written a bit about it.

Explanatory blog post at http://www.vivtek.com/blog/jum-sprint-done.html, and that links to a PDF paper, the code, and a few explanatory pages on the project. Feedback welcome! But I'll keep plugging away regardless. It's got its teeth into me now.

#hofstadter #ai #historyofcomputing

Jum sprint (November 8 - January 8)

Jeffrey Yost Jan 29

New Interfaces article by CBI Senior Research Fellow William Aspray & Union College Prof. Emeritus David Hemmendinger "Using Reference Works to Study the Intellectual and Cultural History of Computing." It reflects on their terrific new book pictured below. #HistoryOfComputing #computers #AI #computerscience #technology #science #history

Interfaces:
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Silicium Jan 29

L'OKI IF-800 Model 50 de 1983 est fascinant :
un ordinateur conçu comme infrastructure de bureau, avec Kanji natif et approche “système”.
Il montre pourquoi le Japon, malgré sa maîtrise technique, a perdu la bataille des standards mondiaux.

A lire : https://www.silicium.org/index.php/blog-catalogue/divers/oki-if-800-model-50

#RetroComputing #HistoryOfComputing #JapaneseTech #OKI #IF800 #DigitalHistory

Silicium Jan 26

En 1986, Compaq sort le Deskpro 386, premier PC 32 bits du marché.
Moment clé : IBM perd le contrôle de l’évolution du PC.
Un vrai tournant pour l’écosystème ouvert.

#RetroComputing #HistoryOfComputing #PC #silicium #retrocomputing