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Amazon.com: Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers: Books: John Alderman,Dag Spicer,Mark Richards
Book about vintage computers.Wed Oct 24 17:31:02 2007 - permalink -- http://www.amazon.com/Core-Memory-Visual-Vintage-Computers/dp/0811854426/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-6107134-4632847?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180826552&sr=8-1
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History of LISP Software Preservation Group
The goal of this project is to locate source code, design documents, and other materials concerning the original LISP I/1.5 system, and as many of its follow-ons as possible.Tue Oct 9 15:43:32 2007 - permalink -- http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/
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Online Etymology Dictionary
This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.Wed Sep 5 14:38:02 2007 - permalink -- http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
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The Miracle of Theta Functions
Nice article by the Borwein brothers about efficient algorithms for the computation of pi, includingFri Jun 1 19:05:06 2007 - permalink -- http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/borwein/paper/html/node12.html#SECTION00050000000000000000
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Low End Mac: How Much Mac Do You Need?
Information about older Macintosh computers.Tue Feb 6 22:48:51 2007 - permalink -- http://lowendmac.com/
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World Wide Words
International english from a british perspective.Thu Jan 25 12:30:45 2007 - permalink -- http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
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The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources
A fun site collecting obscure (english) words.Fri Jan 5 16:20:13 2007 - permalink -- http://phrontistery.info/index.html
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Mac OS X Internals: The Book
A book that could be interesting.Tue Aug 8 18:07:22 2006 - permalink -- http://osxbook.com/
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Unixica.com -- A tribute to the Unix and its people
A large collection about Unix history, people, etc.Wed Aug 2 16:23:10 2006 - permalink -- http://www.unixica.com/html/links.html
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Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle
Interesting information on the history of Unix and some Unix-like systems from Andy Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX. Also includes the sad FUD campaign by a certain Mr. Brown.Tue Aug 1 21:37:23 2006 - permalink -
The UNIX group (Dept. 1127) at Bell Labs is also mentioned.- http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/
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The UNIX oral history project
Early Unix history, with comments by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Doug McIlroy and A.G. "Sandy" FraserThu Jun 29 14:59:21 2006 - permalink -
On 2022-08-05, this page no longer exists at the URL http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/expotape.htm, but on https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/expotape.htm- https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/expotape.htm