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I'm a fan of CHM. That said there collections have (understandably) a rather Silicon-Valley-legacy-centric view of, erm, computer history. You'll find little m
by ricksunny 8mo ago
I'm a fan of CHM. That said there collections have (understandably) a rather Silicon-Valley-legacy-centric view of, erm, computer history. You'll find little mention, for example, of these tantalizing early mentions of alternative computer architectures (with pictures!) in NSA's predecessor OP-20-G, as posed alongside the then-nascent von Neumann architecture (also covered).
https://www.governmentattic.org/8docs/NSA-WasntAllMagic_2002.pdf https://www.governmentattic.org/8docs/NSA-WasntAllMagic_2002...
- satiated_grue 8mo agoThere's solid representation of Boston and DEC in particular, for example, as well as IBM, so not all /that/ "Silicon-Valley-legacy-centric". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Museum,_Boston#Computer_History_Museum_(California) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Museum,_Boston#Co...
- ricksunny 8mo agoActually that link was helpful, thanks. The fact that CHM's early progenitor was called Digital Computer Museum in a 1979 out of Boston actually explains a lot. They were fundamentally distinguishing lineage from the likes of differentia analyzers, and (to a more muddled degree), from Rapid Selectors / Rapid Comparators.