The ultimate yak shave: to implement its last generation of #LispMachines, Symbolics developed a complete #EDA toolset in #CommonLisp called NS that enabled them to design and verify their ASICs, gate arrays, and boards from architecture to photomasks for manufacturing.
While looking at an November 1966 New York Times, I noticed a few classified ads seeking programmers. It was fun to read the job descriptions and the advertising copy:
"give us a chance to debug your career"
"experience with character-oriented computers would be desirable"
🕰️ 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
"Coming from the hobbyist community, Wozniak was used to designing computer hardware for expandability and modification. With the Apple II, purchasing a product off the shelf wasn’t conceived as an end point but as the start of a user’s process of customizing her own machine"
➥ @NewYorker