OK, folks, longshot query: Anyone in the DC-DE-PA-NJ area interested (and willing to come get) this #Panasonic KX-E700m electric typewriter (c 1986)? Last used maybe 5 years ago, but as far as I know it still works. And it's kosher!
Please help me get rid of this thing responsibly! Email info at websites in profile or @ me here to discuss.
A good book and accompanying DVD is Designing Interactions / Bill Moggridge. They covers some of the earlier days of computing. On them it shows a few other Xerox mouse designs that are totally different from what is used today. Also shows the first laptop. The book and DVD also cover up-to mid-2000s interviews looking back. Also has more than one interview / perspectives more than one for the mouse and palm pilot.
🌊 The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops
— The Register
"You could argue that macOS, based on the multi-threaded, multi-processing microkernel operating system Mach, BSD Unix, and the open source Darwin, is the most successful of all Unix operating systems."
Does anyone have favorite stories of scaling popular web services ca. the late 90's / early 00's they could link to? (e.g., bradfitz's livejournal scaling story 1!)
How about some more Norwegian good stuff? NUSSE, Norway’s first electronic universal computer from 1951. It totally wasn’t a copy of Apexc, uh uh, nope. Check out the valves! #computingHistory
Microsoft was unable to launch the product until 1985, however. Some people criticized the announcement as vaporware marketing against rivals.
One of those rivals was a PC-based GUI called Visi On which you can actually run in emulation today or view its interface: http://toastytech.com/guis/vision.html
🕰️ How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah
⎧ In the 1960s and ’70s, computer science pioneers David Evans and IEEE Life Member Ivan E. Sutherland led the development of many of the technologies animators now use. Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland, helped jump-start the computer graphics industry ⎭ #CGI #Utah #Animation #ComputingHistory https://spectrum.ieee.org/history-of-computer-graphics-industry
Wow I forgot I had ordered this! Two volumes (plus extras) of Shift Happens including slip case. Having just flipped through this book already makes me unreasonably happy! #keyboards#ComputingHistory#ShiftHappens
I had absolutely no idea that Tom Baker and Lalla Ward did advertisements for Prime Computer in the #1980s! Also, I have never, ever heard of Prime Computer. What's even more astounding is that they were based in my home state of Massachusetts! Why have I never heard of them?
It makes sense that Doctor Who would be a "hot property" in Massachusetts at that time. #WGBH in #Boston aired the Baker years frequently.