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by timthorn 2y ago
Next lecture will be delivered later this afternoon :)
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The Cambridge University History of Maths society is a fantastic resource - almost all the lectures are live streamed: https://hom.soc.srcf.net/
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And I think that B&W made sense as back then, there would have been a number of monochrome portable computers still in service.
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Which was hosted by the Centre for Computing History!
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Internet Thruway from Nortel allowed multiple ISPs to use the same local termination hardware; If I remember the details correctly, different national numbers could be terminated on the same box, with the subsequent IP traffic routed to the
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I was working for one of the telco equipment firms around that time. We made a box that would terminate TDM trunks and had it in the lab. I was installing Windows 2000 on a PC in the lab (manual disk swapping required) when, hidden behind a
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by timthorn 2y ago
Yes, the Intelligent Network was the big thing in the 1990s. It allowed for routing as you describe as well as calling cards and many other features: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Network
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It doesn't even need a wire - wet string is enough: https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
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What makes marking unfair? Look harder at validity(heatherfblog.wordpress.com)
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February 1960: SNAP – the dawn of nuclear satellite propulsion(theengineer.co.uk)
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Going off on a tangent, but what's the point of washing an orange?
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Interesting quite how many of them are third sector organisations rather than for-profit businesses.
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UK CMA publishes provisional findings in cloud services market investigation(gov.uk)
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Airlander, the biggest aircraft, may get off ground(thetimes.com)
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It marked the end of playtime at our school. We were 30 miles west of Heathrow and as it went overhead, still climbing from takeoff, it would have interrupted lessons. It was usually pretty punctual, but every now and then we got an extende
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by timthorn 2y ago
Obligatory reminder about Micro Men, the BBC4 docudrama about Sinclair vs Acorn: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men
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If you want to go a step further, here's one built from discrete transistors: https://www.megaprocessor.com/
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Isn't that what everyone says about their hometown? :)
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JLR is based in the metro area of Britain's second city. It's not exactly the middle of nowhere. Rolls Royce is in Derby, on the edge of the Peak District with much to offer. Much cheaper housing with more space available. And unl
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British weather is great. Enough rain to keep the land green and pleasant, temperatures that don't get too hot nor too cold - the very definition of temperate.
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Reminds me of the racing games for the ZX Spectrum. They exploited the rubber keyboard and recommended the use of a large roll of Sellotape pressed on to the computer as a steering wheel.
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UK's first vertical launch rocket will blast off this year(thetimes.com)
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Late Great Engineers: John Fowler – Mastermind of the London Underground(theengineer.co.uk)
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January 1880: Edison's electric light(theengineer.co.uk)
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This is effectively how Pluto was discovered (not cross-eyed, but with a tool to help): https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/finding-pluto-b...
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The order of the addresses was linked to the Coloured Books and needed translation to interwork with SMTP, and eventually the users needed to change their addresses. The point being, that anyone involved in UK scientific computing will have
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> "Little black book" was an ubiquitous term when I grew up, and so using the term would just be a synonym to "address book" that nobody would think twice about. Indeed, I'm aware of that meaning and its ubiquity
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> The little black book of the internet The article doesn't mention the Coloured Book protocols, but I'm pretty sure this phrasing isn't accidental: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured_Book_protocol
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Thousands duped by hoax firework display 'created by AI'(thetimes.com)
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Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers(theregister.com)
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