IrishJourno

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Build Your Own Altair 8800 Personal Computer(spectrum.ieee.org)
21 points by IrishJourno 9y ago|12 comments
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The Most Interesting Bit About Colbert's Monologues May Be the Wall Behind Him(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by IrishJourno 9y ago|0 comments
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by IrishJourno 9y ago
Hi Folks -- you asked, we answered! Here's an 11-minute cut https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/geek-life/profiles/extended-...
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by IrishJourno 9y ago
Hi Folks -- you asked, we answered! Here's an 11-minute cut https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/geek-life/profiles/extended-...
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by IrishJourno 9y ago
I'm the editor (Stephen Cass). I really should have added "independent" to "similar" in my response there, but oh well ;). Anyhoo instead of emailing me, you can just let me know here if this thread has inspired you
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by IrishJourno 9y ago
The article notes PRESTEL, and points out the key technical difference between the PRESTEL and Minitel architectures: "Although [Minitel] wasn’t the only network to use X.25 or videotex technology during the 1980s, Minitel was unique i
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by IrishJourno 9y ago
Hi Folks -- Stephen Cass here, one of the editors at IEEE Spectrum. Rather than replying to a bunch of comments individually, let me say here that the folks pointing out it wasn't the first ever 16-bit computer are absolutely correct.
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by IrishJourno 9y ago
Hi -- As I noted above, I'm one of the editor's at IEEE Spectrum. And you're absolutely correct: as the article does make clear, it was the first 16-bit HOME computer. We should have been more specific in the headline, our
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by IrishJourno 9y ago
Hi -- I'm one of the editor's at IEEE Spectrum. You're absolutely correct: as the article does make clear, it was the first 16-bit HOME computer. We should have been more specific in the headline, our bad.
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by IrishJourno 10y ago
This one had the very fancy giant expansion box I never had!
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by IrishJourno 10y ago
I'm the author of this article, but: BWAHAHAHAHA! That honestly never occurred to me, note to self....