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Chevy's 1987 MS-DOS 'Build And Price' Program Was Totally Rad If you go to pretty much any car company’s website in 2020, you’ll find a “build-and-price” page where you can pick colors and options for any model, see how specs look and get an MSRP. That’s been around for ages, but you might not have seen an older example of a digital car configurator than this incredible “Chevtech Disk Drive” MS-DOS program from the &... READ MORE |
 UncleBrad 07/13/2020 |
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Delphi Turns 25! [ The Delphi language is proof positive that all the best things are not necessarily household names. Not only was Borland's Delphi OOP language (ObjectPascal) superior to every compiled, client-executable solution out there from vendors like Microsoft and PowerBuilder, its IDE was years ahead of its time. To this day, I compare all the languages I run into to this groundbreaker.&n... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 02/17/2020 |
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The Hack That Saved Apollo 14 How on Earth do you patch the software on a computer orbiting the Moon? Very carefully. ... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 02/03/2020 |
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The Geocities Archive [I started professionally developing Web applications back in 1996, where MIDI music, dancing babies, unicorns, insane colors and animated gifs kicked off what has now become a very different (and sometimes very dark) place to "surf" with your morning coffee.]Geocities was one of the first places your average person could make a website for free. The Geocities Gallery aims to a... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 02/03/2020 |
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UFO On a Stick [Does this remind anyone else of the The Gods Must Be Crazy?]Stargazers have already mistaken SpaceX’s Starlink satellites for alien spacecraft. Now, CEO Elon Musk says the devices used to connect to the micro-sats will look like UFOs, too.The Starlink Terminal will look like “a thin, flat, round UFO on a stick,” Musk tweeted on Tuesday, noting that users... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 01/09/2020 |
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Dongle a DIY Radio Telescope! A young friend recently spent a week learning about radio astronomy at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. His experience prompted me to ask: How big a radio antenna would you need to observe anything interesting? It turns out the answer is a half meter across. For less than US$150 I built one that size, and it can easily detect the motions of the spiral arms of the Milky W... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 10/01/2019 |
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COBOL turns 60: Why it will outlive us all The credit for coming up with the basic idea goes not to Grace Hopper, although she contributed to the language and promoted it, but to Mary Hawes. She was a Burroughs Corporation programmer who saw a need for a computer language. In March 1959, Hawes proposed that a new computer language be created. It would have an English-like vocabulary that could be used across different comput... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 09/09/2019 |
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Sarnoff vs Farnsworth: The Battle for the Tube. Philo Farnsworth hadn’t had much of a choice. He needed money in order to pursue his invention, and that was the only offer on the table. Investing in television would seem like a no-brainer today, but at its birth it was considered an extremely risky investment – not only had inventors been chasing the dream (and spending money) for over two decades, but they still hadn’t adequa... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 09/05/2019 |
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Celebrating the CRT The Tube was everywhere, and its influence over western society would only continue to grow toward the end of the 20th century, as multiple-television households, computers and video-game consoles became increasingly more commonplace, until being fully replaced by LCD displays in the early 21st. I can’t imagine what the world would have been like without the Tube – or maybe I can.... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 09/05/2019 |
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Technology that changed us: The 1970s In this 50-year retrospective, we're not just looking at technology year by year, we're looking at technologies that had an impact on us, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and bad.... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 09/04/2019 |
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History of Windows OS in Screenshots Windows -- originally codenamed Interface Manager -- was announced by Bill Gates in 1983, but didn't ship until 20 November 1985. Its first incarnation was as a front end for Microsoft's command-line DOS, or Disk Operating System.Windows 1.0 could only support tiled windows, but had desktop features such as the MS-DOS Executive file manager, Calendar, Cardfile, Notepad, Terminal, Calculato... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 07/03/2019 |
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NH Honors BASIC Language New Hampshire has installed what appears to be the first historical highway marker honoring computer programming, according to the Concord Monitor. The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a programming language that was invented at Dartmouth College in 1964.The sign itself is located on New Hampshire Route 120 — a short distance away from ... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 06/17/2019 |
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‘Robots’ Are Not 'Coming for Your Job'—Management Is As my old TV repair mentor, Charlie Percifield, used to observe: "The smeller's the feller."Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time, ‘robots’ are not sentient agents capable of seeking out and applying for your job and then landing the gig on its comparatively superior merits. &lsqu... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 06/04/2019 |
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Building the System/360 Nearly Destroyed IBM Instead, the S/360 proved to be the most successful product launch ever and changed the course of computingA short list of the most transformative products of the past century and a half would include the lightbulb, Ford’s Model T—and the IBM System/360. This mainframe series forever changed the computer industry and revolutionized how businesses and governments worked, enhancing produ... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 05/01/2019 |
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The Razor Blade Radio Bob, W9RAN, has scanned and made available to all Boys Fun Book - Things to Make and Do, which contains instructions on building the "Foxhole Radio" (constructed with a razor blade). I remember Dad told me about these, but I've never seen a working example. Bob and his father successfully built one. ... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 04/19/2019 |
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TOTALLY TUBULAR There was once a time in this nation's history that involved many historical events including industrial and technical advances which required electronics. During the early era of this electronic age, the vacuum tube was at the core of such advancements.With all the modern day conveniences we currently enjoy, most of their heritage can be traced to the vacuum tube.It is with the greatest... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 03/15/2019 |
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A.I. is a Big Fat Lie! A.I. is a big fat lie. Artificial intelligence is a fraudulent hoax — or in the best cases it's a hyped-up buzzword that confuses and deceives. The much better, precise term would instead usually be machine learning – which is genuinely powerful and everyone oughta be excited about it."The concept of 'intelligence' is entirely subjective and intrinsicall... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 01/25/2019 |
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