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• Blaze visits the Titan Missile Museum

  
  Cryptosmith — Authority: 106
  Matt Blaze has posted a blog entry following a visit to the Titan Missile Museum that’s just south of Tucson, Arizona. It’s a well written summary of the place.Blaze talks a bit about Titan, PALs, and the “butterfly switch;” mechanisms intended to prevent an unauthorized launch. The Titan system didn’t have ...
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• A 21st Century Family Library

  
  Cryptosmith — Authority: 106
  Over the years, our family has bought three copies of the Crosby, Stills & Nash album. My wife and I each bought a vinyl copy back in the ’70s. Recently we bought a “clean” (not copy protected) copy from the iTunes music store. I expect that’s the last time anyone in our family will have [...]
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• The recent history of medical technology — piecing it together from memoirs and reminiscences

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 126
  One of the challenges for a museum of medicine intent on collecting recent and contemporary medical artefacts is to get an overview of the historical development of medical instruments, medical technological systems and the medical device industry. Trade shows and their catalogues (published or online) are excellent ...
  2 weeks ago

• How your CPU works

  
  The PC Informant — Authority: 136
  This won’t be everybody’s cup of tea but, if you are curious about how a computer does what it does, here’s a link that explains how the arithmetic unit of a CPU works. In simplest terms, a computer is an adding machine together with simple logic functions that can choose different operations depending on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Computers and Health Care

  
  Cryptosmith — Authority: 106
  David Himmelstein of Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Med School (with co-authors) recently published a paper on the effect of computerization of hospitals.The results, as Computerworld put it: Computers don’t save hospitals money.This makes sense, especially when you look at the study. They focused on data collected ...
  3 weeks ago

• bubbles - from gum to cars

  
  tingilinde — Authority: 136
  Bruce Weiner made a lot of money in a bubblegum company - enough to give him the ability to create a huge museum for microcars  - minimal post WWII cars. There are a lot of reasons why this class of car died in most countries (there is a small size class in Japan ), but with modern technologies, electric versions ...
  3 weeks ago

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