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by pmcjones 3y ago
Here’s a story about disassembling a short binary card deck for an old time sharing system: A CAL TSS debugging tool https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2023/04/22/1196/
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by pmcjones 3y ago
The time sharing system on the SDS 940 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genie ) led to TENEX on the PDP-10.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
My mother contracted coccidioidal meningitis (CM) [1] around 1991, perhaps because her immune system was weakened from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Apparently fluconazole was not widely used at this point, and they treated her with A
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Re old Prolog systems, lots of them are described here: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/prolog/
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Knuth has been saying interesting things for a very long time. He began _The Art of Computer Programming_ project in 1962.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Almost as good as Severe Tire Damage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_Tire_Damage_(band)
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Dennis and I overlapped at Tandem Computers in the early 1980s, but we didn't meet until 2003, when we were both members of a small private club of computer geezers. In addition to being a great software designer he was one of the nice
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by pmcjones 3y ago
No, it was being explored in the context of System R at IBM San Jose Research -- see this link in the Wikipedia article: http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-System...
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Imagine repairing a noisy potentiometer using powdered graphite.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
James => Jerome.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Apollo 11 landed on July 20, 1969, so just over 8 years after the main speech at the joint session.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Correct. We used PL/S for the RSS, which was the lower layer of System R, the first SQL database. See https://mcjones.org/System_R/ and https://mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/index.h
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by pmcjones 3y ago
I’ve been married for 53 years; we share our accounts and have never had any problems.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Lower-case was not common on printers and terminals in the 1950s and 1960s (and into the 1970s).
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by pmcjones 3y ago
LKAS = Lane Keeping Assist System.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Actually, the collection work took place around 2005-2010. I wrote the first draft of the paper in 2012, but didn't submit it for publication until 2017.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
See also https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp2_fam... . (Author of _Annals_ paper here.)
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Have you looked at Tailscale for server-to-server communication?
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Very little leaked out of the float, since gasoline has lower density than water. And after an expedition they pumped the gas out of the float into storage tanks.
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The Bathyscaph Trieste: Technological and Operational Aspects (1962)(archive.org)
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by pmcjones 3y ago
This was written by Don Walsh, who with Jacques Piccard, descended to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in 1960. It explains many engineering details.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
First built 70 years ago, it descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960, and found the wreckage of the USS Thresher in 1963.
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Trieste (Bathyscaphe)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pmcjones 3y ago
The article you cite says "Therefore, there is no significant gap between titanium and carbon-fiber-reinforced composite to create galvanic corrosion. This means that commercially pure titanium and its alloys are completely resistant t
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by pmcjones 3y ago
Robert W. Taylor, who brought Larry Roberts into Arpa, had other things to say about Bob Kahn: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10270201...
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Video of earlier trip to Titanic in the Titan(youtube.com)
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Terraforming Earth.
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We should not let the Earth overheat(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
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by pmcjones 3y ago
That’s what David Boggs said about Ethernet at an early (contentious) standards meeting.
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by pmcjones 3y ago
wget?

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