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  • A museum of all things computational: mechanical, mainframe, mini, micro
    Forum about retrocomputing, found via a link on Norbert Landsteiner's site https://masswerk.at/lounge.php
    https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/some-materials-on-early-c-and-the-history-of-c/3016 looks interesting.
    Sun Mar 16 19:18:17 2025 - permalink -
    - https://retrocomputingforum.com/
    C computer history language programming reading TODO
  • Mailüfterl emulator
    The emulator can be used on https://norbertkehrer.github.io/mailuefterl/mailuefterl.html, information on the Mailüfterl computer can be found on
    https://norbertkehrer.github.io/mailuefterl.html
    See the blog entries "Floating Point Library for the Mailuefterl Computer and More Original Mailuefterl Programs
    Thursday, August 31, 2017" and
    "Mailuefterl Emulator in JavaScript
    Monday, July 10, 2017" on https://norbertkehrer.github.io/
    Thu Mar 13 16:31:05 2025 - permalink -
    - https://github.com/norbertkehrer/norbertkehrer.github.io/tree/master/mailuefterl
    computer history JavaScript on-line
  • THE DECSYSTEM-20 AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (1977-1988)
    Found via a link on https://statespace.dev/tops-10.html
    Sat Jan 25 22:24:25 2025 - permalink -
    - https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/dec20.html
    computer history pdp-10 reading
  • Panicz Maciej Godek: "The concept of Emacs Of all t…" - Functional Café
    Interesting discussion about the "Emacs nature" and some of the history.
    Tue Dec 17 11:38:55 2024 - permalink -
    - https://functional.cafe/@PaniczGodek/113630055034870975
    computer editor Emacs history
  • [TUHS] Pipes (was Re: After 50 years, what has the Impact
    Links to documents describing transputers and the Helios operating system, which has a GPL v3 licensed NG variant, https://github.com/axelmuhr/Helios-NG which appears to be dormant.
    Mon Dec 9 10:10:07 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-December/031154.html
    computer FOSS GPL history operating-system
  • The Backbone – Creatures of Thought
    Another interesting book, found via https://technicshistory.com/2024/11/03/a-craving-for-calculation/ which was mentioned on the MoHP forum https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-22717-post-195784.html#pid195784
    Wed Nov 20 14:22:28 2024 - permalink -
    - https://technicshistory.com/the-backbone/
    blog book calculator history internet
  • Bell Systems Letters and Memos
    Mentioned on the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-September/030872.html
    Some interesting documents are
    There Is No Royal Road to Programs - A Trilogy on Raster Ellipses and Programming Methodology (M. Douglas McIlroy)
    MM 67-4734-7 1967-05-15 2.54 MB An Introduction to the Available Programs and Other Design Aids for the Design of Filters, Equalizers and Other Networks
    MM 67-5311-18 1967-08-29 1.27 MB Notes on the Design of Cosine Roll-Off Filters

    A few days later, Chet Ramey posted https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-October/030946.html the link https://www.telecomarchive.com/bstj.html where the Bell System Technical Journal from 1922 to 1996
    Sun Sep 29 15:34:58 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.telecomarchive.com/lettermemo.html
    Bell computer history reading
  • The Early History of the "more" Command
    Dan Halbert explains the origin of the Unix command more(1).
    Mon Sep 16 11:30:25 2024 - permalink -
    - https://danhalbert.org/more.html
    computer history Unix
  • Tektronix Wiki
    "Welcome to TekWiki, a wiki for the community of Tektronix oscilloscope enthusiasts." Includes pages about Keithley instruments.
    Found via a post on the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-September/030738.html
    Sun Sep 15 14:43:46 2024 - permalink -
    - https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/Main_Page
    electronics history reading wiki
  • Nixie Tube & Clock Manufacturer
    "Bringing Nixie tubes back to life" - small manufacturer of Nixie tubes and clocks in Březolupy, Czech republic, https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=B%C5%99ezolupy#map=13/49.11641/17.61486
    Found on Jamie Zawinski's blog https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/09/cathode-poisoning/, https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/09/cathode-poisoning/#comment-252180
    Mon Sep 9 14:14:18 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.daliborfarny.com/
    electronics hardware history physics time
  • A manual for the incompatible timesharing system, by Lars Brinkhoff
    Work in progress, mentioned on https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-10/c/YWoDDGWPt58/m/a8gOknBFAQAJ
    Wed Sep 4 23:43:39 2024 - permalink -
    - https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/its-manual
    computer history ITS operating-system pdp-10 reading
  • Vague, But Exciting
    Found on Paolo Amoroso's blog https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/blogroll
    Mon Sep 2 09:59:09 2024 - permalink -
    - https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/book/
    blog computer history reading web
  • A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade
    Appears to be an interesting read.
    Thu Aug 22 11:54:42 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-August/030591.html
    computer history network reading TODO
  • Tools to work on SimH disk files; SDF's interim computer museum
    "Jay Logue has an awesome set of tools using the user space file system support: FUSE for Linux and MacOS: https://github.com/jaylogue/retro-fuse which support UNIX v6, v7 and 2.9BSD filesystem formats." is intriguing.
    Not directly related, but the links to SDF's interim computer museum in https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-11/c/NR_EUdMj3cI/m/Phu3neBrAQAJ are interesting too.
    Tue Aug 6 21:36:41 2024 - permalink -
    - https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-11/c/9SHpZwleyek/m/VxxpNHYCAgAJ
    computer history TODO tool Unix
  • Ben Gurley and the PDP-1
    Found via a link on MoHP https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-22071-post-189526.html#pid189526
    The number of transistors is smaller than I had expected, it will be interesting to compare it with the values for Mailüfterl.
    Mon Jul 29 22:07:29 2024 - permalink -
    - http://www.computer-timeline.com/timeline/ben-gurley/
    computer history
  • Social Computing, before the Internet
    Blog article about the social aspects of the ITS operating system at MIT, by Kent Pitman.
    Found via
    Mon Jul 22 22:43:27 2024 - permalink -
    - https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/07/social-computing-before-internet.html
    blog computer history ITS operating-system Pitman
  • Polprog's site
    Found a link to the floppy disc head alignment on the MoHP https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-22003-post-189057.html#pid189057
    Tue Jul 9 07:53:13 2024 - permalink -
    - https://polprog.net/
    blog computer electronics hardware history
  • LinuxCard - Dmitry.GR
    A DECstation emulator on a business-card sized PCB. The description is a nice read.
    https://hackaday.io/project/196769-decstation2040 for a RP2040 version, with 32 MB HyperRAM, 1024 x 864 mono video, and USB mouse/kb
    Mon Jul 8 11:22:37 2024 - permalink -
    - https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=33.%20LinuxCard#_TOC_2673ce8234cc65bf5d5e81743172700b
    computer DEC hardware history MIPS Unix
  • [TUHS] Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?
    Links to stories about the TENEX and TOPS-20 operating systems
    Thu Jul 4 15:38:30 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-July/030389.html
    computer history operating-system reading software TODO
  • MicroEMACS for v7 Unix on the PDP-11
    See README.me for instructions to set up uu{en,de}code for transferring data between emulated v7 and the host system.
    Fri May 31 09:14:57 2024 - permalink -
    - https://github.com/athornton/microemacs-v7
    computer emacs history pdp-11 unix
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