Showing posts with label computer history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer history. Show all posts
Monday, February 5, 2024

"The Soul of a New Machine" -- Re-reading the Classic Book by Tracy Kidder

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This book is especially important to the SolderSmoke community because its title has led to one of the most important concepts in our commun...
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Monday, January 29, 2024

The System Source Museum (Computers, Maryland)

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Thanks to my friend Bob KD4EBM for alerting me to this.  Bob provides some very useful background:  https://museum.syssrc.com/ (Just north o...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Computer Science is DOOMED Because Humans are Bad at Programming (Video)

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Wow, this video of Dr. Matt Welsh's presentation to the CS-50 class at Harvard really put the whole AI, large language model into perspe...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Video on Discovery and Restoration of the Apollo Guidance Computer

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I've probably posted before about CuriousMarc's efforts to restore the DSKY Apollo Guidance Computer.  But this Wall Street Journal ...
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Sunday, October 29, 2023

Apollo Core Rope Memory -- CuriousMarc Takes it on (video)

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Here is another amazing Apollo video from CuriousMarc (AJ6JV).  Thanks to Bob KD4EBM for alerting me to this.  We have recently been discuss...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Sunburst and Luminary: Apollo "Rope" Memory, and other items of interest

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  Wow.  That is the method that they stored computer memory for the moon missions.  When they were satisfied with a program they would say i...
Monday, October 2, 2023

"Sunburst and Luminary" author Don Eyles was a Ham, a Hacker, and a user of Plywood who Understood Juju

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-- As a kid, Eyles took a summertime shop class with W4LRO.  Eyles himself went on to get his ham license -- he was K4ZHF and was active for...
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Thursday, July 6, 2023

The TEK 465 'Scope Used to Create Pong and the Apple II

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Wow, this is almost enough to make me take another shot at repairing my TEK 465.    
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

How they Make Raspberry Pi 4 Single Board Computers

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So, if the Raspberry Pi is a key part of your new "homebrew" rig, how much of the rig did YOU actually build? 
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Sunday, February 19, 2023

Antoine's Home Lab in Paris

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Another very interestng lab brought to us by CuriousMarc.    
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Curious Marc's Lab and Workshop

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This is the guy who has done all the amazing videos on the Apollo communications systems.  And a lot more.  This look at his lab is inspirat...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Back to the 1970's! Homebrew Keyboards! Don Lancaster's TV Typewriter

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Even though it is outside my normal analog comfort zone, I really liked this video.  Farhan sent it to me, along with this note:  ----------...
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Thursday, April 7, 2022

The Vacuum Tube's Forgotten Rival: The Magnetic Amplifier

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The video above shows one application of the principal, but be sure to check out the IEEE article:   https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-vacuum-tu...
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Saturday, January 1, 2022

An Interview with Paul Lutus (Audio)

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https://corecursive.com/remote-developer/ Thanks to Bob Scott KD4EBM for alerting us to this wonderful interview. 
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Thursday, October 7, 2021

Another M^3: The Michigan Micro Mote

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Move over Michigan Mighty Mite and Mate for the Mighty Midget.   There's a new M^3 in town.  And it is SMALL.  Hack-A-Day had an article...
Friday, July 9, 2021

The Woz on Homebrewing and The Right to Repair

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There is a lot of wisdom and history in this Cameo video by Steve Wozniak.   Thanks to Chuck KE5SPY for alerting us to this.   Here a good B...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

Marc Verdiell Has The Knack

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Here is Marc Verdiell, the "Curious Marc" who repaired the Soyuz Clock (shown in yesterday's blog post).   Really cool.  M...
Friday, March 27, 2020

How They Make Chips That No One Can Understand

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The December 21, 2019 edition of The Economist had an article about the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's plant known as...
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Monday, May 6, 2019

"The Bit Player" A New Movie on Claude Shannon

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The Bit Player Trailer from IEEE Information Theory Society on Vimeo . Thanks to Bob KD4EBM for alerting us to this.  As Bob put it, S...
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Saturday, April 13, 2019

Digital Engineering vs. Analog Engineering

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In  a book  review  Thompson makes this observation about the digital-analog divide:  One difference might be that human beings can d...
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