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nickynicky9doors writes: "New Scientist has an interview with computer historian Michael Williams. Mr. Williams has undertaken to set up a world class computer museum. My favourite was always the Cray 2 which used artificial human blood plasma as a coolant, but the article talks of the 1965 HoneyWell kitchen computer which was built for the Neiman Marcus department store. At a cost of $10,500 it came with 2 programming manuals and a cookbook. Garbage In was by way of flickering binary switches and Garbage Out was by a row of blinking lights. There's more at www.computerhistory.org."
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That was my second FP in one day. Surely trolls aren't actually... watching the Olympics!?
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Does anyone else think the announcers of the Toughman Competition are just fucking annoying?
i once listened to a webcast of Dick Stallman saying that since God is a man, and since God created Women, he believed that every man should be able to forcefully initiate sexual intercourse with any woman he likes, as long as he videotapes it and shares it with other men. fucking shithead.
I'm pressing my agenda right now. Better stand back!
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Read the fucking article: it uses artificial plasma. Go get a job.
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'90's, when the WWW was first envisioned. ...there's a possibility it
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'Next on your right is an Apple//e....
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. it was all new and exciting. It seems, though, that the wave
...and this won't be considered offtopic...
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[cyberstreet.com] which date well back into B.C.
[sbc.edu] is a great example.
[slashdot.org]
[warbaby.com] even modern. [thinkquest.org]
[yahoo.com] for it
>There's dust on some of the PC's that is older than
010100 is "I'm happy to see you, children".
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10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first
1965 (Score:3, Interesting)
1997-2002 OSDN.
2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe
2002)
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl
35 lousy years.
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR
80's television. Truly a Canadian icon.
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A tour (Score:1)
about
Actually (assuming two leading zeros, to make it an 8
actually... watching the Olympics!?
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Alan Thicke was found dead in his home this morning. Even if
Alan Thicke. DEAD. (Score:-1)
All is true, thats why i think is important to learn
All the time.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their
almost peeing myself because i was laughing so hard.
already done (Score:3, Informative)
am I getting old?
ANAL COX was found dead in his home this morning. There aren't
Anal Cox. Dead. (Score:-1)
Ancient Computing (Score:1)
And First Posts! How exciting. FP bitch.
and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains
Announcement! (Score:-1)
apache
appreciate what he did for the Linux kernel with his MODPROBE.
Artificial human blood... (Score:1)
artificial what?? (Score:5, Informative)
As long as we got each other
askslashdot
ASM and how does the Turning Machine worked, ASM is a
ASM? (Score:0)
ASPHYXIATION. Even if you never liked his work, you can
ass (even with a MODPROBE or two) than dirty
assembly language, please?
athens, malay. i was heading to the bathroom after
awards
baaaah (Score:-1, Offtopic)
Baby rain or shine;
be a few decades ago. Very cool idea.
be able to forcefully initiate sexual intercourse
be the worst day of my life. i'm glad that son of a
be used as blood substitutes-- such as Oxycyte-- but these are
Been there - done that (Score:4, Interesting)
believe it was founded in 1982.
Better than what Richard Stallman does. He rapes
bit word '00010100') is says: ^T
bitch leper-a-con is dead. maybe now i'll be able to
Blinkenlights! (Score:2)
blood plasma as a coolant....
books
Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
born, I can't help but feel a twinge of remorse. It seems the
boxes through to the movers and shakers of the industry would
Brings back some memories!!! (Score:2, Interesting)
but im trying hard and all by myself, if you plan
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Call for Donors... (Score:4, Funny)
called "The Art of Assembly programming", or
Can't you read?
can find, but Yahoo! Yellow Pages [yahoo.com] has a listing
code
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Competition are just fucking annoying?
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Computer museum?? (Score:2, Funny)
computers truly are.
computers.
computers... im starting to understand Bill Gates
computers?
couldn't hold it and peed all over his hand. i hope to
created Women, he believed that every man should
developers
Didn't read the article too carefully, eh?
Do they archive software or the Internet info as well (sans
Do you think this machine could use 8 bit words?...
Does anyone else think the announcers of the Toughman
does computer hardware works inside the system. Its
doesn't get you modded up anymore.
Don't waste another minute on your crying.
drinking hemlock.
efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by
electronic systems, were all pure perfluorocarbon liquids,
Emergency Poll (Score:-1, Offtopic)
ENIAC: '010100'
EULA.
FC-87, fer instance) have boiling points we
features
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February 9th, 2002)
First Post (Score:-1, Offtopic)
For anyone wondering about the 'dept' line of this story,
for coolant? Are we cold blooded?
For those who want links to every type of computing,
for us younger geeks to take a look at the way things used to
Foundation) it was formalized into "The Digital Computer
fp
fp (Score:-1, Offtopic)
From a mailing list written by Seth
from the Boston Computer Museum when it shut down, not
gifts to their competitor's in-house museum it was spun off
Glass-cow, Switzerland. i was calling my mom to ask
GNU/FELLATIO on him. I'd rather have peanuts up my
GNU/hippie cock in my mouth!
Go get a job.
GOD that fucker is rotten in hell at this very moment.
Golden Age of computer geekdom died with the Information Age.
handy.
has broken. Nothing new seems to have happened since the early
have never really learned DOS and are awed by and afraid of
he sucked and so do you you are a lamer and so was he
He will be missed
her to feed my cat for me because i expected to get
Here's the link [uiuc.edu]
here's the missing [?] [everything2.com]
high-level-laguage, GUI's, timesharing systems, networking. .
hof
hold power lunches at a cafe. Instead the bread-and-butter
home late. little did i know that it would turn out to
http://mummware.com/toc.asp?AuthorAliasID=1)
I'm pressing my agenda right now. Better stand back!
I always wondered who was willing to pay $75 a week for my
I applaud people like Michael Williams.
I catch myself sitting in classes with other CS majors who
I couldn't wait 'til Monday.
i dont thinks so but dont really know, its more like
I just heard the sad news on CBC radio. Comedy actor/writer
I just heard the sad news on the radio. The #2 kernel hacker
i know ASCII dates to IBM's glory)
i once listened to a webcast of Dick Stallman
I once made a computer out of pine needles, sticks and
I still miss the Computer Museum [mos.org].
I went to the Museum of American History, and they have an
Illustrate the Complexity of Machines (Score:4, Insightful)
In times such as ours where computing for the every day person
Information Science section in the basement. I saw a book
interviews
into the space built for a transportation museum and became
involves little more than pointing, clicking, and writing IMs
Is it possible the general public doesn't care about
Is it possible the general public doesn't care about these
Is it possible the public doesn't care? Yes.
Isn't there something rather sad about collections of old
It's nice to see some humanity in articles
It's not ascii, it's a 6-bit encoding scheme where
it and shares it with other men. fucking shithead.
It should be apparent that unheeded MS bashing
It was a good try. Gwen's vision had always been halls of gray
itself and they have not.
Jan 16
Journal: 03:02 PM February 9th, 2002)
journals
Jun 29
knows ASM, and no, i wont tell you in assembly
language and can't help but feel a twinge of superiority based
language cause im still a student of ASM, hey!,
Later when folks at other companies became leery of donating
leading questions so the interviewee can press his agenda.
learn to cultivate hot grits.
like Fluorinert, which is a commercial product produced and
like Space:1999 technology.
Looking at this stuff, most of which was created before I was
Love the questions (Score:1)
machines?
make pilgrimages, fund through philanthropic impulse, perhaps
Makes (Score:0)
many details yet, but it appears he died from AUTOEROTIC
Many of the machines in this guy's collection came
me wonder...
Memorabilia (Score:2)
mmmm... seems like cold blood has a link with
month-long TV commercial...
more "friendly" e
Museum" - Digital as in DEC.
Museums like these help to illustrate just how complex modern
My favourite was always the Cray 2 which used artificial human
my first post, yay
my own feces. Boy did that thing run great. Wow im an
My Visit to the Smithsonian (Score:1)
name and link as soon as i get to my studio...
NEVER failed. It was a great technology for the time.
Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore
newfangled electronic appliance the size of a room do all of
next moday.
nice language, gives you a good perspective of how
nowhere.
of peanuts in the phonebooth of a seedy pub in
Oh, man, do I even need to take the time to correct this?
old timer.
older stuff
on some unfounded feeling that I have touched the machine
online as an e-book and you can find it by
Ooh show me that smile.
OpenGL and thinking back to high school when I spent my free
or emails, we should all learn to appreciate and marvel at
oxygen-carrying perfluorocarbon (PFC) emulsions. These
parts, so they could not be easily identified as machines.
past polls
people in truck stops and forces to perform
plasma. At least I know it was going to a good use!
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posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
posts in a story!
preferences
private collection (as in the VAX guy then Nat'l Science
products are about as similar to the liquid coolant used in
Programming_. Is it too early to relegate that to history, or
radio
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Re:Anal Cox. Dead. (Score:-1)
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Re:The Computer Museum (Score:1)
Re:What the heck's going on? (Score:-1)
Read the fucking article: it uses artificial plasma.
Read the rest of this comment...
reality of school groups and tourists finally prevailed and
recognition. Many ancient computing devices never had moving
respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest ©
ride of the many useless characters. (and as long as
rob's page
role, DEC donated lots of support and the place went...
sad to see many young programmers telling its boring,
salesman? A used car salesman knows when he's lying.
saying that since God is a man, and since God
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shoes of researchers who were trying to figure out how to
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Shure SM58 microphone in a seedy comedy club in
sigh (Score:2)
simply false. There are several commercial products that can
Since We're Talking History..... (Score:1)
Sitting right in our hands.
sleep at night.
sold by 3M. They're good choices for immersion cooling because
solve the most complex problems of the day, all while having a
Some links
some of the PC's that is older than me.
something like that, its freely distribuited
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success... mmmmm...
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technology field than by studying the past.
Thanks for pointing it out - it might come in
That's also assuming it's ASCII
That's how long ago it was that the 7-segment display seemed
that long ago.
that probably goes for most of the slashdolt crowd.
That was my second FP in one day. Surely trolls aren't
thats why i dont notice the whole world already
the #2 comedian/actor ANAL THICK once raped me with a
the #2 kernel hacker ANAL COX once raped me with a bag
The best is ready to begin.
the Children's Museum and Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum. I
The Computer Museum (Score:3, Insightful)
The coolants used in the various Crays, plus lots of other
The core memory thing was really interesting. The computer I
the Cray 2 as scrambled eggs are to mayonnaise.
The Cray 2, like several successors including the C90 and T90,
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The History of Slashdot Trolls (Score:-1, Offtopic)
The History of the Slashdot World
The non techie :
The pitiful
The realist
The site does not describe computing before the 1900's. But
the WayBackMachine)? I can just see a ton of AOL disks pilling
the work for you.
Then I go to a museum like this, take a look at what my elders
There's a Computer Museum in Boston, MA, on Congress Street by
There's no better way to learn about the current information
There is even an ancient Greek clocklike machine over two
there that I used as an undergrad: McCracken's _Fortran IV
there were ancient computing devices that do deserve
these machines?
they're chemically inert. Ironically, most of them (like
Things were really hopping in computers a few decades ago. The
This is everywhere... or maybe just around my and
This shows how advanced they were for their time. Stonehenge
This will be a good educational tool and also serve as a way
thousand years old that can be found here. [giant.net.au]
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time programming cute little VGA hacks in x86 assembly
To get the bronze, you must post goatse in every five threads!
To get the gold, you must get bitchslapped!
To get the silver, you must get 10 replies in a post or 10
to learn ASM by yourself i recommend you a book
To say that liquid fluorocarbon is artificial blood plasma is
to use a not standard ASCII table for alpha to get
ton, ran slower than molasses uphill in a blizzard, but it
topics
total piece of motherfucking shit!
Tour Guide 'It says it's happy to see you children.'
Tour Guide: 'On your left here is ENIAC. Say hello to ENIAC.'
triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
Truly a HOMOSEXUAL LINUX icon. He will be missed.
Two timelines here [digitalcentury.com] and here
up in some closet at the museum.
used liquid fluorocarbon as a coolant. This is true.
used to maintin in the Navy ran on Core memory. It weighed a
useless, superpassed and old enough to be ignored.
We're nowhere near the end.
We're nowhere near.
We got each other
We got the world
went out of busines recently. It doesn't have a website that I
were working on, and realize that I am
What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car
What about this huge contraption with all the vacuum
What the fuck is "ASM?" You haven't a bloody clue
What the heck's going on? (Score:-1, Offtopic)
What the hell's the "Olympics"? Oh, right, that
when ANAL THICK jammed the mic into my wet vagina i
where does this happen? and could you tell us in
Who needs that? You should see where I work. There's dust on
why? huge trackballs and other kid-oriented stuff?
with any woman he likes, as long as he videotapes
Witness "The Computer Museum". Originally Gordon Bell's
You get to journey back into time and put yourself in the
you never liked his work, you can appreciate what he did for
you stupid cocksucking faggot. You're a complete and
yro
Computer History Museum
It's Saturday.
It would seem that the site is not viewable using Konqueror (2.2.2). It doesn't seem to be Konqeror's fault, it is just that the site does not send a valid HTTP response header (or any header, for that matter), so it freaks out the browser. Mozilla 0.9.8 is able to compensate for it, so you may want to try it instead.
I`m not so sure about the computer museum, but I agree more women should churn butter :-)