An article appeared in The Register about the percentages of Windows OSes out there being used. I was surprised at how low the percentage of Win 8 & 8.1 were. It looks as if Win 8/8.1 are going to be this decade’s Vista: treated as a hornets’ nest and completely avoided, even though the prospective
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I found this link to a slide show called A Complete history of Mainframe Computing by R. Arzoomanian. The pictures are fantastic. I thought this tidbit was very remarkable: “In fact, by the time it was retired in 1955, it was estimated that the ENIAC by itself did more calculations than all of humankind did up
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Honeywell Level 66, model 66/07. Had 384k words of memory. One word = 36 bits, so it was 1.25 megabytes. Five disk packs (removable). Three tape drives. Line printer in foreground. The video screen sitting on the mustard colored cabinet displayed all the jobs running along with their priority. Sometimes the students would be on
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