Hacker NewsExamining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor
https://www.righto.com/2026/06/space-shuttle-io-processor-boards.html
#HackerNews #SpaceShuttle #I/OProcessor #CircuitBoards #TechHistory #NASA
N-gated Hacker News🎉 Oh joy! An #anniversary edition of MUMPS—a language from the Jurassic era that refuses to die! 🙄 #GitHub thinks we need a primer, when what we actually need is to throw a party to celebrate its extinction! 🎈
https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/MUMPS_Primer.adoc #MUMPS #Celebration #TechHistory #Throwback #HackerNews #ngated
https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/MUMPS_Primer.adoc #MUMPS #Celebration #TechHistory #Throwback #HackerNews #ngated
The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition
https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/MUMPS_Primer.adoc
#HackerNews #MUMPS #MUMPS76 #programming #anniversary #edition #techhistory #open-source
fluidwireThe first Internet of Things device was a vending machine.
In 1982, students at Carnegie Mellon University wired a Coca-Cola machine to ARPANET so they could check if it was stocked and whether the bottles were cold, before walking over. It is now seen as the first internet-connected appliance.
The same pattern drives every connected sensor we build: fluidwire.com
🥱 Oh wow, let's all gather 'round and geek out over the riveting tale of a 40-year-old video card that made the Apple II a "serious" computer. Reverse-engineering ancient tech to understand slot 3's quirks—just what every hip, modern reader was dying to know! 😂💾
https://www.wiseowl.com/articles/a2fpga-videx-01-the-card-that-made-the-apple-ii-serious/ #vintagecomputing #retrotech #reverseengineering #AppleII #techhistory #geekculture #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.wiseowl.com/articles/a2fpga-videx-01-the-card-that-made-the-apple-ii-serious/ #vintagecomputing #retrotech #reverseengineering #AppleII #techhistory #geekculture #HackerNews #ngated
The Card That Made the Apple II Serious
https://www.wiseowl.com/articles/a2fpga-videx-01-the-card-that-made-the-apple-ii-serious/
#HackerNews #AppleII #FPGA #TechHistory #RetroComputing #VintageTech
MrB33nViruses devastated companies, governments & hospitals before the internet even existed — carried by floppy disks passed between friends 🖥️💀
The supply chain was already compromised in 1986.
#CyberSecurity #TechHistory #Malware
https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=1328
The supply chain was already compromised in 1986.
#CyberSecurity #TechHistory #Malware
https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=1328
The most manufactured device in human history isn't the smartphone - it's the MOSFET. Invented at Bell Labs in 1959 by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng, this tiny transistor is the on/off switch inside every microchip and IoT sensor. An estimated 13 sextillion have been built since 1960 - the foundation of all modern electronics. fluidwire.com #IoT #Electronics #TechHistory #Engineering
Danish AkhtarA computer which can be placed on a Desk was named a Desktop; similarly, a Laptop got its name.
The early hand-held computer was called a 'Palmtop'.
Why didn't this term 'Palmtop' make it to the mainstream, & why did 'Phone' or 'Smartphone' replace it?
A similar case is with the term for a bigger phone, i.e., 'Phablet' (Phone + Tablet).
#Tech #technology #History #phone #Computer
#Digital #AskFedi #TechHistory #Desktop #Laptop #Palmtop #Phablet #Tablet #Question
The first PLC was built in 1968. Engineer Dick Morley's Modicon 084 (MOdular DIgital CONtroller) replaced walls of hard-wired relays with reprogrammable software written in ladder logic - so a factory could be rewired in code, not copper. That same idea still runs factory automation and industrial IoT today. We build on that lineage at fluidwire.com #IoT #IndustrialIoT #EmbeddedSystems #TechHistory
