Computer History

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• My 2009 IT Industry Predictions

  
  Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat — Authority: 412
  It’s that time again, when everyone who thinks they’re a pundit (that would be everyone with a blog or Twitter account) has to make predictions for the coming year. But predictions are perilous: Get it right and you look like a mere trend-watcher; get it wrong and you look like a fool. It’s such a hassle! So ...
  6 days ago

• Drobo, XP Users: Beware of 4K “Advanced Format” Drives!

  
  Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat — Authority: 412
  Western Digital is first to bring "Advanced Format" 4k-sector drives to market, but buyers should beware of installing them in old systems! Personal computer hard disk drive access methods have repeatedly been forced to adapt to ever-expanding capacity. Physical (CHS) addressing and 28-bit LBA have been abandoned, ...
  1 week ago

• Metafuckers

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 463
  I dream of a time when I won’t have to write things like this. When I can focus on uplifting, informative posts or essays or speeches in which I talk about neat stuff I’ve found, or connections I’ve tracked down, or some crazy hilarious thing that happened that I want to share with you. But that day’s not ...
  1 week ago

• Looking for an iPhone Wrist/Neck Strap solution? These are your best options.

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 747
  If you’re anything like me you’re constantly leaving your iPhone on a table or in the wrong pocket, always finding it in the end, but rarely there when you want it for that special photo or phone call. I’ve never been a neck strap kind of guy, but with a goal in mind to have my iPhone with me at all times ...
  1 week ago

• Jump!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I’m working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too ! Everyone’s project will look different, but it’s the rare person who can’t benefit. Join in -- no need to catch up, just jump in right now. My feet rarely leave the ground. For exercise, I use the stationery bike, the Stairmaster, yoga, and ...
  1 week ago

• Types of Computers

  
  Adiwebs.com — Authority: 132
  There are three different types of computers namely analog, digital and hybrid. ~ Analog Computer operates by measuring physical units such as voltage, pressure, temperature, speed, etc. Analog computers are used for scientific and engineering applications that deal with a property which is changing continuously. ...
  1 week ago

• [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Give The Gift of TRS

  
  Vintage Computing and Gaming — Authority: 114
  Red Wizard, your life force is running out. I’m presently so sick that I’m about to keel over and mop the floor with my head, so you’ll have to provide your own commentary on this one. All I know is that the TRS-80 Model 100 is awesome, I have two of them, and I took [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Apple’s Five Most Important Printers

  
  Vintage Computing and Gaming — Authority: 114
  Younger computer fans may not know this, but for almost twenty years (1980-1999), Apple sold Apple-brand printers for use with its computers — a fact that’s easy for us to forget today, ten years since Apple shipped its last printer. That being so, Macworld recently asked me to write an article about Apple’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• WizzyWIG Volume 3 is Coming: Volume 1 and 2 for Free

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 463
  I already wrote reviews of WizzyWIG Volume 1 and WizzyWIG Volume 2 , Ed Piskor’s fun stew of hacking and phreaking history put out in a graphic novel format.  If you didn’t read them or don’t remember the gist of them, it was archivist/historian guy really liked these things , and that opinion hasn’t ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dec. 9, 2009 Silicon Valley Open Doors

  
  DJCline.com — Authority: 128
  On December 9, 2009 in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum, the 2009 Silicon Valley Open Doors (SVOD) held the Fifth Annual International Conference on Entrepreneurship. This event brings together Russian-speaking innovators, venture capital firms and angel investors to discuss reinventing the startup ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Difference Machine

  
  Christian Grantham — Authority: 126
  On the drive into work, I was completely fascinated with this story on NPR about Charles Babbage, a noted mathematician who dreamed up the first known computer back in the 1800s.What fascinated me was how he was viewed when he was alive and the challenges he faced in getting people to understand what he was [...]
  2 weeks ago

• LON’S INVENTIONS ARCHIVED IN THE COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM

  
  Lon Safko — Authority: 116
  The Computer History Museum In Mountain View, CA has requested some of Lon’s other inventions and the SenSei System Software for its permanent collection. The SenSei System Software, conceived as a human interface between the early Apple Computer and disabled users, was a milestone in the development of the Smart ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mobile Search for a New Era: Voice, Location and Sight

  
  Cell Phone News and Cell Phone Reviews: HotCellularPhone.com — Authority: 151
  Google Mobile Search, Google Mobile Search by Voice, Google Mobile Search by Location, Google Mobile Search by Sight Today Google held a launch event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Fresh off the stage, we’ve invited Vic to highlight the mobile team’s announcements, and the unique set of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Video: Google Real-Time Search Event (Plus Noshing!)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 698
  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Here is a short video BoomTown did at the Google search event yesterday, where it launched a number of new features to its flagship offering–most of all, comprehensive real-time search. Innovations also included a hopped-up mobile translation service, voice ...
  3 weeks ago

• Savvis and Cisco Deliver Private Clouds for the Enterprise – StreetInsider.com

  
  OnlyDedicatedServers.com — Authority: 146
  Savvis and Cisco Deliver Private Clouds for the Enterprise – StreetInsider.com ST. LOUIS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS ), a global leader in outsourced Internet infrastructure services for the enterprise, and Cisco today announced an expanded relationship focused on the development ...
  3 weeks ago

• Relevance meets the real-time web

  
  WORDPRESS-TEMPLATES-PLUGINS-RSS — Authority: 153
  Relevance meets the real-time web Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world’s information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it.That’s why today, at the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google To Hold an Anything-Bing-Can-Do-We-Can-Do-Better Search Event (and Singalong?) Monday

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 698
  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Google answered BoomTown’s blatantly begging plea to call, write or just say hi, after being inundated in news of Bing search from Microsoft (MSFT) this week–emailing yesterday about an “search event” to be held Monday in Silicon Valley. It will ...
  3 weeks ago

• 3 Million Files on CD.TEXTFILES.COM

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 463
  Yes, that’s right, it’s official: After hitting the one million file mark in December of 2005 and passing the two million mark a few years later, we’re now at over 3,000,000 files on cd.textfiles.com , my shareware and shovelware collection. I’ve ranted about this thing consistently for years – ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unpublished Article on Geocities

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 463
  I was asked by someone working for a Very Big Newspaper to write something to appear in the Very Big Newspaper.  Told I needed it in within a couple days and definitely by morning of a Thursday, I pulled an all-nighter and composed the writing as well as ensuring Geociti.es had a copy. It is now 30 days later and ...
  4 weeks ago

• ARC/ZIP Perspective by Dean W. Cooper

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 463
  This statement is posted as-is, with no changes or editing, by Jason Scott. Comments by Jason will be in the comments section. My Perspective on the PKARC / ARC Controversy by Dean W. Cooper Nov 30th, 2009 Who Am I I am the author of the DWC archiver which was created around the same time that Phil Katz ...
  4 weeks ago

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