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Category Archives: Computer History
The Apollo Instrument Unit: The Computer That Flew the Saturn V
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IBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPM | Tom’s Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/ibm-announced-the-worlds-first-hdd-the-3-75mb-ramac-350-disk-storage-unit-69-years-ago-today-unit-weighed-more-than-a-ton-50-platters-ran-at-1-200-rpm
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AOL is ending its dial-up service, disconnecting from the 1990’s internet era
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Storage over the years…..
One of the first hard drives (HDD) to be sold commercially (1956) could only hold 5MB of data. It is the size of a commercial refrigerator. Compare that to the finger tip sized Micro SD Card that can hold 1TB
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Who says girls can’t code!
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Boston Dynamics: 40 years of development (1983 – 2023 ) Atlas
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Nelma Persona
I do not know what is making me hark back to my youth, but way back when I had a Nelma Persona CPM Computer. I spent many an hour doing my homework on Wordstar, playing with Calcstar Spreadsheets and downloading … Continue reading
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From Punch Cards to Python – IEEE Spectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/from-punch-cards-to-python
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