brad | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 27 2008 | history
A nice write-up on Mencken's WWI-era hoax and its continuing life.
Quoted: All I care to do today is to reiterate, in the most solemn and awful terms, that my history of the bathtub, printed on Dec. 28, 1917, was pure buncombe. If there were any facts in it they got there accidentally and against my design. But today the tale is in the encyclopedias. History, said a great American soothsayer, is bunk.
brad | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 22 2007 | computers, history, science education
Simulator, emulating the operation of EDSAC, one of the world's first stored-program computers.
Quoted: The Edsac simulator is a faithful software evocation of the EDSAC computer as it existed in 1949-51. The user interface has all the controls and displays of the original machine, and the system includes a library of original programs, subroutines, and debugging software. The simulator is intended for use in teaching the history of computing; as a tutorial introduction to the classic "von Neumann" computer; or as an historical experience for current computer practitioners.
brad | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 01 2007 | computers, history
brad | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 13 2007 | apple, computers, history
Deep link into image database of old Homebrew Computer Club newsletters. The link is to the second newsletter, page six. The member-supplied shout-outs are wonderful: at the end of column one is Tom Pittman's entry, at the end of column two is Steve Wozniak's entry.
The higher-level link to see all the issues is:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/
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