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   by pmcjones 5y ago

   I'm an author of the Pilot paper (and also a participant in the much earlier capability-oriented CAL TSS for the Control Data 6400: https://www.mcjones.org/CalTSS/ ). Pilot was a long time ago, but as I recall its
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   by pmcjones 5y ago

   More history here: https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/
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   by pmcjones 5y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_D._Green
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   by pmcjones 5y ago

   Is that normalized by the number of people under 40 in 1989 versus the number of people under 40 in 2021? There are a lot of baby boomers (first group).
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   by pmcjones 5y ago

   > Our programming group consisted of Peter Kraft, Charles Simonyi, and me. Peter was an experienced programmer, who had learned his craft during the Gier-Algol project. Charles was a long-haired teenager, a refugee from Hungary who was f
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   by pmcjones 5y ago

   Gimbals -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal#Rocket_engines
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   by pmcjones 6y ago

   Could someone apply software such as is described in this paper to create a "virtual reality" walk-through of the riot? https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/icmew/2018...
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   by pmcjones 6y ago

   Actually, this is the original (non-mirrored) link and it works fine: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/cs_techReports/STAN-CS-76-... bitsavers.org, maintained by Al Kossow, is a very important resource for c
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   by pmcjones 6y ago

   An open-access copy is here: MR33, Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1960. https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/9253
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    Noticing history – a personal view [pdf](tug.org)

    1 points by pmcjones 6y ago|0 comments
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    by pmcjones 6y ago

    Oops -- my apologies; I wasn't correctly following the discussion.
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    by pmcjones 6y ago

    If you use the Album>Write Metadata to Files command, it will do so. (I just tested adding a Face Tag to a photo. In Settings>Configure>Metadata, I also checked the box next to Face Tags under Write This Information to the Metadata
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    by pmcjones 6y ago

    Being able to specific a particular sequence for the photos in a "virtual album" that is different than, say, their capture date or filename.
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    by pmcjones 6y ago

    In 1965 I took my driving test in a BMW 600, the two-cylinder big brother to the Isetta. Here's a photo of the car and the rest of my family's fleet of cars and motorcycles as of 1966: https://imgur.com/a/ria9
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    by pmcjones 6y ago

    I believe this is the first paper to describe reference counting: George E. Collins. A method for overlapping and erasure of lists. Commun. ACM 3, 12 (Dec. 1960), 655–657. https://doi.org/10.1145/367487.367501
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    by pmcjones 6y ago

    LISP more like 1960 for LISP I -- see http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp15_fam... : J. McCarthy, R. Brayton, D. Edwards, P. Fox, L. Hodes, D. Luckham, K. Maling, D. Park and S. Russell. LISP I P
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    by pmcjones 6y ago

    https://computerhistory.org/oral-histories/ https://computerhistory.org/blogs/ http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory HOPL I: https://dl.acm.org/toc&#x2F
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    Andy => Andrew
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    Metropolis, N., J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, 1980. https://www.amazon.com/History-Computing-Twentieth-Nicholas-... This is based on papers presented at a
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/ http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/ http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/ h
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects Is a start.
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    Some background on the project: https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2020/03/18/1064/
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    I've been a happy LibraryThing user since since 2006.
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    Markoff's obituary [1] in the New York Times says, "The cause was not known, his wife, Colleen Barton, said, but in recent years he had suffered the effects of an earlier bicycle accident." [1] https://www.nytimes.
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    I'm glad you mention testicular cancer, which I was diagnosed with in 1982, just as the first extended trials for a chemotherapy were completed ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicular_cancer#Chemotherapy ). My st
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    yolk => yoke ?
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    Doug Engelbart's famous 1968 demo used an Eidophor.
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    by pmcjones 7y ago

    Euclid's _Elements_.
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    Does Tiny Nonprofit Hold a Key to the Middle Class?(nytimes.com)

    1 points by pmcjones 8y ago|0 comments
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    by pmcjones 8y ago

    And 110 baud before that (Model 33 Teletype).