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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter)
OTD 1972: IBM announces the System 370 models 158 and 168 - first with virtual memory.
come on down to the Vintage Computer Festival West, here in Silicon Valley at the Computer History Museum. Saturday and Sunday, August 1-2! this is the ultra rare 3270 PC (left) and the XT/370 (right).
Datamation, April 1970. The 360/195 was the fastest IBM machine at the time.
From my grandfather's photos: "1920 Cavalryman - Fully Equipped"
Next weekend Josh and I will be giving a demo of Xerox systems at VCF West - every generation of computer hardware they sold form the Alto, to the Dorado, the Dolphin, Dandelion, and Daybreak. A rare chance to see the whole lineage in one place - working!
OTD 1992: Sun Labs vs SunSoft water war. Epic nonsense! #SunMicrosystems
Sun Microsystems: Sun Labs vs SunSoft Water Fight 1992
Massive water fight between Sun Labs and SunSoft on July 24, 1992. Sun Microsystems Mountain View Campus.
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It seemed pretty good at the time! Abysmal MTTF performance for the IBM 360/91 at Princeton in the 74/75 school year. From a Computer Center newsletter. The general improvement trend in software MTTF is as they matured from the conversion from HASP to LASP just before these metrics.
University of Texas Computation Center with a CDC 1604 and 160. From a general brochure, 1961/2. Later they had CDC 6600 and 6400.
I got your Open Source Operating System right here. (1959) SHARE Operating System for the IBM 709/7090/7094: drive.google.com/fil...
Found an old recipe book from Marfa, TX among my aunt's old things. Some things are best left undisturbed.
OTD 1982: Boston #USENIX conference. First "trade show" for #SunMicrosystems. www.krsaborio.net/un...
OTD 1995: Legato Systems goes public. Founded by brother Bob and other folks from Sun. Red Herring: drive.google.com/fil...
OTD 1959: Fire destroys Pentagon data center. Data center design & safety got a lot more serious after that.
OTD 1956: Burroughs acquires Electrodata, the southern California developers of the later B5000 series. Blog about the development of the Electrodata/Burroughs 205 and 220 machines: datatron.blogspot.co...
OTD 1970: IBM System/370 announced. The main reason for the bump from System/360 to System/370 was the use of IC memory instead of core. Virtual memory features took another 2 years. en.wikipedia.org/wik...
OTD 1945: von Neumann's EDVAC report published. The beginning of modern computer architecture. web.mit.edu/sts.035/...
Name that programming language! (Wrong answers appreciated!) Hint: "Personal" computer, circa 1963.
OTD 1981: My first public speaking role -- at the Usenix Texas UNIX Users conference. Full details here: vtda.org/pubs/AUUGN/...
Manchester Code IEEE Milestone: spectrum.ieee.org/ma... (Used in early Ethernet)
Manchester Code Made Bits Behave
Embedded signal timing scheme recognized as an IEEE Milestone
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Father's day burgers with my son At Jumbo's Win-Win in Philo, CA. Mighty fine!
OTD 1975: The first UNIX Users Group meeting - the organization that evolved into USENIX. archive.org/details/...
70 years of A.I.: OTD 1956, the Dartmouth Workshop: en.wikipedia.org/wik... Personally, I was happier when A.I. meant American Idol.
Speaking of John Tukey - I found this plaque on my recent visit to Princeton. The plaque is in the E.E. department, although Tukey was always in math & statistics department. And Cooley was at IBM. #FFT
Happy Tukey day! Born this day, 1915. en.wikipedia.org/wik...