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CHM employee here. Always great to see CHM on HN. Glad folks are excited about this -- as are we! There's so much cool stuff in the Collection.
by davidmurphy 8mo ago
CHM employee here. Always great to see CHM on HN. Glad folks are excited about this -- as are we! There's so much cool stuff in the Collection.
- ricksunny 8mo agoGreat initiative - so now let me throw a query: * Why isn't the Lewis Terman OH https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102653943/ https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10265394... showing up in the main link? * Also, not related to Oral Histories, but could CHM update their historical narrative to include the Vannevar Bush-designed computers that the NSA's predecessor OP-20-g used? https://www.governmentattic.org/8docs/NSA-WasntAllMagic_2002.pdf https://www.governmentattic.org/8docs/NSA-WasntAllMagic_2002.... ; In so doing, I feel CHM needs to further neutralized its Silicon Valley centered-ness. Fred Terman may be the godfather of Silicon Valley, but even godfathers once needed thesis advisors, and his had the initials 'VB'.
- tony69 8mo agoThe picture of the 4004 and 8008 are super low res
- musicale 8mo agoDoes the digital portal also link to emulators (and documentation) for historical systems? I've always enjoyed things like: https://smalltalkzoo.computerhistory.org https://smalltalkzoo.computerhistory.org for example. Most of these systems were things that humans interacted with in some way, and that interaction is hard to get from static images. Watching a video of Larry Tesler demonstrating the Alto is great - and even better if you can turn around and try an emulated Alto in your browser (of course operational hardware would be even better.)