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Post #AxuTnlArFPqrUEXYXY by [email protected] |
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An open-ended question for all you computer geeks: what would you want to learn… |
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Post #AxuU651ECj8kFKluFM by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina I'd love to know a bit more about tube and diode logic! |
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Post #AxuU7xOdW0n1BWcEq0 by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina Architecture and quirks would be.the.most interesting to me...I… |
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@nina_kali_nina for me, it would be evolutionary dead ends. Tech, like mercury … |
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@nina_kali_nina where as core memory feels of a continuum with modern memory, e… |
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@hp they're really simple in theory and complicated and finicky in practice… |
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@nina_kali_nina I know! That's why I'd like to know a bit more :PSince … |
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@nina_kali_nina I didn't realize there were digital tube computers. Neat! |
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Post #AxuUObdBgvcqbVMQnQ by [email protected] |
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@petrillic Williams tubes are surprisingly similar, too. But I'd say it'… |
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Post #AxuUVjxh7GeqT6M37o by [email protected] |
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@madengineering those would be sequence-controlled calculators, and not that di… |
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Post #AxuUYh8g4HB8a9tu9Q by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina One fun thing about ENIAC is how many tubes it had in common wi… |
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Post #AxuUa1Az3VkL13bu88 by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina ideas that were tried then, didn't catch on, but came back … |
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@nina_kali_nina Architecture and instruction sets for me, I think. I've loo… |
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Post #AxuUmmceTesPdvdfZg by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_ninaI’d like to see actual code from the wild written in the langu… |
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Post #AxuUmmjk3IY1zuxKcq by [email protected] |
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@inthehands there are quite a few resources for some popular machines, mostly s… |
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Post #AxuUzYhfXVTyEq4rLs by [email protected] |
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@eviloatmeal this is an interesting angle... Thanks, I'll think about it |
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Post #AxuV3fPkWvfID6eeK8 by [email protected] |
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@FritzAdalis thousands of them! :) |
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Post #AxuVEARi0h2rLhZuG8 by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina I second @inthehands , Everyone talks about how "things we… |
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@clavicle @inthehands noted! It's also pretty cool to think about booting a… |
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Post #AxuVPLigR1OLV1qkQi by [email protected] |
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@stylus @nina_kali_nina I gave a lecture course about a decade ago -- one of th… |
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Post #AxuVPLpQ1ymNpv07vc by [email protected] |
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@darkling @stylus even such an obvious thing as stack wasn't an obvious thi… |
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Post #AxuVVOj0AtSsYbsnUO by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina Specific machines: I'd like to know more about what the LEO… |
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@nina_kali_nina I'm very curious about their architectures, with their simi… |
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Post #AxuVYWcfGdfPv8PTXs by [email protected] |
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@alcinnz there's a book on the history of early British computers that does… |
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Post #AxuVgXQSAKCwjBWF0q by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina Programming quirks / architecture are probably my fave. I like… |
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@csepp I want to know this too, but I feel like most people who experienced thi… |
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@nina_kali_nina @stylus Absolutely. Go back to Babbage, and he didn't even … |
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Post #AxuVr16kf8fPgJIgXw by [email protected] |
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@FritzAdalis @nina_kali_nina I'm pretty sure there were *very* early device… |
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@darkling @FritzAdalis there are lots of arguments, but generally there's a… |
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@darkling there should be! I ordered an old book about LEO on eBay but didn'… |
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@nina_kali_nina I'd be lying if I said I didn't want a major console ty… |
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Post #AxuW4UWqaUgQh2voeG by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina Oooo! Link please? |
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Post #AxuW4UcsE5VIzjkd2e by [email protected] |
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@alcinnz chapter 15: https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/EarlyBritish-13-17.htmlIt … |
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@nina_kali_nina @FritzAdalis And does your definition of computer allow for sel… |
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Post #AxuWFSxyjkQj26r5LU by [email protected] |
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@darkling @stylus Fortran is very old! Apparently one of the first High Level L… |
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@nina_kali_nina I'll be interested to see how far down the technical rabbit… |
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@nina_kali_nina I would love to see how to operate a typical program. How they … |
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@nina_kali_nina @stylus Indeed. That's why I picked it as my first example.… |
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@darkling indeed. I suppose LEO shouldn't be too different from EDSAC, but … |
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@stylus now that I think about it, one incredible concept that we might want to… |
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@secretbatcave on the topic: > I was amused to read in the article I wrote f… |
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@nina_kali_nina I'm interested in how wire wraps were done |
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Post #AxuYjtX6j9EW1WvKIy by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina I think the most interesting aspect for me is kind of “how wa… |
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@nina_kali_nina @stylus Isn't this partly what the D-Wave systems are doing… |
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@nina_kali_nina @stylus Just what I need: a perishable GPU. It'd be Gleba f… |
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@heppycat that's a good one! I want to try it myself |
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@darkling @stylus sounds about right, yeah! |
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@nina_kali_nina the impact of women in building these systems. Their paths to t… |
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@papakipos that's a very very good point! |
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@nina_kali_nina Quirks are an interesting topic, specifically how hardware char… |
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@everythingalsocan thanks! Now that you mention this, out of dead evolutionary … |
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@nina_kali_nina Definitely quirks, shortcomings and architecture. That's wh… |
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@nina_kali_nina electromagnetic relays |
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@nina_kali_nina Good ideas that were not recognised as such at the time, and th… |
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@nina_kali_nina Thank you! |
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@nina_kali_nina @stylus ... actually, the history of ALGOL itself could be inte… |
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Post #AxvS3Ac8wGNDytU10y by [email protected] |
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@nina_kali_nina @stylus There's an example I saw somewhere of an ALGOL-68 a… |
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I've been reading around and discovered that instruction pipelining was som… |
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@darkling @stylus by the way, do you have a recording, or notes, or slides? |
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@nina_kali_nina @stylus There weren't any recordings. Oddly, I do have the … |
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@darkling @stylus thanks for sharing! |
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@nina_kali_nina early hardware. Designing computers with a mix of analog and di… |
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@nina_kali_nina Idk if this fits, but I've always kind of been interested i… |
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@nina_kali_nina I’m interested in the reliance of the technology. How it can … |
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@drewdaniels quite fascinatingly, first gen computers had lots of faults in the… |
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@nina_kali_nina wouldn't call myself a geek and i'm quite more interest… |
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@EveOfTheFuture @nina_kali_nina I think I've vaguely heard of these before,… |
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@me @EveOfTheFuture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SetunI think I have more in… |
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@nina_kali_nina @EveOfTheFuture Sadly, apart from the odd word here and there, … |
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@nina_kali_nina quirks as in: mouse always loves to hear about things that work… |
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@nina_kali_nina I have heard many stories about this machine: http://www.ict130… |
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@secretbatcave oh, a BCD machine, lovely... |
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@nina_kali_nina architecture and programming.Capabilities would be nice but for… |
