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  1. Re:Ada by mabu · · Score: 3, Informative · on Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America

    Where is Lady Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer?

    She was already inducted

  2. Re:Why aren't these people already in? by cynicalmoose · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America

    Erm. Sir Clive Sinclair might not be on the list because he was already inducted

    About Linus, though, it depends on what criteria you think are necessary. Gates in in there and he, after all, bought MSDOS, rather than building it himself. Linus's achievement isn't purely technical, but that doesn't stop it being an acheivement worthy of recognition.

  3. Re: Not missing! by ChibiOne · · Score: 1 · on Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America
    Amongst quite a few, here are some names who should have been considered for this list:
    - Bill Gates, the man who truly commercialized software
    Err, Gates is already an Inductee. His name, in case you didn't know, is William H. Gates III.
  4. Re:missing names? by Junta · · Score: 1 · on Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America

    Here.

  5. Re:Missing Options by ism · · Score: 1 · on Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America

    Bill Gates is a current inductee -- as William H. Gates III. Dennis Ritchie is as well. Not sure who you're thinking of, since it's _Brian_ Kernighan (who is not an inductee).

    Current inductees

  6. Re:Missing Options by Junta · · Score: 1 · on Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America

    Bill Gates is already in, so he is not a missing option...

  7. Re:Missing Options by TheFlyingGoat · · Score: 4, Informative · on Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America

    Gates is already in:
    Current Inductees. There's a few others that should be on that list though. There's still plenty to choose from for this year, though. Hopefully not everyone will get in on name recognition alone.

  8. Couple/Few Ideas by youlogee · · Score: 1 · on A Geek's Tour Of North America?

    In San Diego, you could check out The computer museum of America . In Arizona, you could check out The Titan Missile Museum as well as the not-so-successful Biosphere 2

  9. Re:greatest achievement of humankind? by tomhudson · · Score: 1 · on Chinese Manned Space Flight Set For Autumn
    I take it you are referring to the first moving assembly line at Ford (1913).

    Computers (or analytical machines) predate this. Charles Babbage's analytical engine was proposed in the 1830's. The first programmer was a woman (Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron). In 1980, the U.S. Department of Defense honored Ada Lovelace by naming its new programming language "Ada" after her.

    It's interesting that the use of punch cards to program weaving machines, and/or analytical engines, precedes the Hollerith punch card reader by more than half a century.

  10. It's kind of silly..... by Jason+Scott · · Score: 5, Informative · on Collecting Classic Computers

    ....to post an incomplete, long forgotten URL to a site that hasn't gone ahead and added much in the way of content, when there are some truly excellent sites out there with really great and inspiring content, worked on by people who care.

    Yeah, let me throw some URL where my mouth is.

    http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/
    http://www.computer-museum.org/
    http://www.homecomputer.de/
    http://www.thelegacy.de/
    http://www.mobygames.com/

    And the list goes on, and on, and on.....

  11. Re:The only by McFly69 · · Score: 2 · on Old Computers Exhibit

    It was hard before. Everyone would want to sneak at peak at you while viewing nudies.

  12. Re:#6 is a fraud! by McFly69 · · Score: 2 · on Old Computers Exhibit

    I think your silly. Everyone knows its the inside of my car 8-track player!


    Amazingly, in picture #4, they are displaying my hot air toaster-ovens.

  13. Re:#6 is a fraud! by McFly69 · · Score: 2 · on Old Computers Exhibit

    I think your silly. Everyone knows its the inside of my car 8-track player!


    Amazingly, in picture #4, they are displaying my hot air toaster-ovens.

  14. Re:whoa by nucal · · Score: 1 · on Old Computers Exhibit

    Lugging around those disk platters must have been a great way to stay in shape - not an overweight one in the bunch.

  15. The ultimate by YAN3D · · Score: 2, Funny · on Old Computers Exhibit

    in GUI technology

    eat your heart out Jef Raskin!!
  16. Re:whoa by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 2, Funny · on Old Computers Exhibit
    What schocked me most is that there was even a pretty girl that looks feminine in the IT department!
    *sniff* I start to miss the old days....

  17. Re:Uses for more than 64 bits by nick_danger · · Score: 1 · on Slashback: 640K, Pioneer, Payback
    Further proof that what's old is new again.

    c.f., Drum Memory. A portion of the stored instruction contained the address of the next instruction. By knowing how many CPU cycles a given instruction took, you could place the next sequential machine instuction at the location on the drum which would be available the instant the current instruction finished.

  18. Tail Fins by bill.sheehan · · Score: 2 · on Clear Computer Cases
    The first Apple computer was sold as a printed circuit board. Later computers came in heavy-gauge metal boxes, then plastic boxes, then translucent boxes, and now transparent boxes. What's next? Why, back to naked components, of course. Save your old computer cases - they'll be retro soon!

    Everything old is new again!

    Famous Last Words: "Oh, hi Laur... err, Sandra!"

  19. Re:DEC ?? by ackthpt · · Score: 1 · on Can You Back Up Data On Audio/Visual Media?
    Well, I know we did backups to DAT of a DEC Alpha, but not sure it that's what they mean. Probably don't know their computer heritage. Better send these gomers over to The Computer Museum

    --

  20. Re:Museums by mr_gerbik · · Score: 3 · on The Last Multics System Decommissioned

    Here are links to a couple of computer museums here in the US.

    The Computer Museum of America

    Compuseum

    -gerbik

  21. Re:Computer History by UncleRoger · · Score: 2 · on Making The Macintosh 1.0
    The history of computers is an interesting topic isn't there a project cataloging all the different parts of computer history going on?

    There most certainly is! Perhaps you missed the story on the Vintage Computer Festival the other day? There are a lot of people involved in preserving the quickly disappearing history of the computer industry, including myself. Check out some of the others, such as:

    or, for a more international view, try:

    For tons more, check out the links page at the Vintage Computer Festival, or better yet, come to the VCF at the end of September and experience history in person!

  22. Re:The dizzying pace of change by markbanang · · Score: 1 · on What Will Be The Next Generation Of RAM?
    Who would have thought 30 years ago that we'd all be running a Unix-like operating system on machines with magnetic core memory?

    Personally I feel that MRAM is a beautifully ioronic idea.

    Anyone have a good place to send the kids to show them what CORE really was?

    You might want to point people at http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/ core.html which has a nice, brief summary of the technology.

    Other sites worth looking at are:

    http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/core.html
    http://www.computer-mus eum.org/collections/ferrite_mem.html
    http://www.science.uva.n l/faculteit/museum/CoreMemory.html
    http://www.fortunecity.com/ marina/reach/435/coremem.htm

    The last of these is particularly interesting (if somewhat self contradictory, as it describes Univacs miniaturised planes which are only 4.5" square, and cost $6000 each for 1 kilobits of storage.

    Mark..........