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- KingOfCoders 3y agoTelefunken also invented the first mouse.
- actionfromafar 3y agoThat ups "invented the first mouse" to at least three different inventors.
- KingOfCoders 3y ago"First" is always difficult, I agree, even the big bang might be second.
- actionfromafar 3y agoThat mouse was very impressive though, it looks very "production ready". Not like a hack.
- xenonite 3y agoDo you have a reference?
- KingOfCoders 3y ago"First rolling-ball mouse" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#Rollkugel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#Rollkugel https://www.e-basteln.de/computing/rollkugel/rollkugel/ https://www.e-basteln.de/computing/rollkugel/rollkugel/ Engelbarts mouse didn't have a ball.
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- LAC-Tech 3y agoIt's so cool to see machines from an age when Germans still referred to technical things using their native language.
- _trampeltier 3y agoSiemens S7-300/400 PLCs manuals used german words (Akku, Doppelwort ..). Also AWL (something like Assembler for PLCs) used german mnemonic by default. It just changed with the new S7-1200/1500 TIA generation. Now they use english words everywhere and AWL mnemonic is english by default.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoIt's still mostly the same in Germany today. My cousin in Germany is doing a 1-year long IT schooling course (going from how a PC works, how Win and Linux work, Shell/PS scripting to python and AWS) and the course material has all the technical terms in German: "Rechner", "Speicher", Ordner", "Betriebssystem", instead of Computer, Memory, Folder, Operating system. Almost nothing from the course material is in English, which was shocking to me as if you're searching online for solutions to issues or learning new concepts, you can't expect in your career to only Google things in German and find answers in German, but you'll have to know to use everything in English to broader your search and knowledge base, so forcing all the candidates and materials in German feels like an unnecessary crippling. So despite the new clothing, Germany is still a conservative digital dinosaur underneath, pretending to be cool and modern. "How do you do fellow Kinder?"[1] My 0.02 Eurocents [1] https://youtu.be/fiOMbqPHFwo?si=CIbdpdTXnkQ6MyJs&t=28 https://youtu.be/fiOMbqPHFwo?si=CIbdpdTXnkQ6MyJs&t=28
- denotational 3y ago> Germany is still a conservative digital dinosaur underneath Using one’s native language as opposed to English is sufficient to make one a “conservative digital dinosaur”? I think your conclusion is correct, but I don’t think this Anglocentric argument is the reason why.
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- fuzzfactor 3y agoAt one time there were places that had engineers and just plain inventors would could dream up new vacuum tubes in their sleep. Plus come up with factories that could mass-produce the products at commodity prices. I always thought it was cool to see what happened when people like that got a hold of programmable electronics, especially solid-state.
- 486sx33 3y agoI feel like closing that loop was actually bad for innovation. When we designed analog tubes, there could be some exciting piece to make/invent. Now everything is programmable and we get stuck on “why” or “what” we are trying to make before we even start. A bit like computer software, no one just messes around to make pong or hello world anymore, they are spending 6 months white boarding the thing before they write any code. (Or maybe they aren’t, but in hardware we do) So … nothing super amazing in my sleep anymore. Waking up in the middle of the night to design a circuit to provide a constant -5vdc for a 555 timer while the rest of the circuit is +\- something or another, just doesn’t happen anymore.
- Filligree 3y agoPeople absolutely mess around with software, probably more than ever before. Maybe that doesn’t happen as much with hardware, but I’d be sad if it didn’t happen up here.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoAh cool. They didn't just make the stereo console I use as furniture for my record players and mixer.