Computer History
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The history of computing machines, software, and the people behind them. Readers can learn about early hardware and operating systems, preserved source code and emulation, the origins of languages and protocols, and retrospectives on companies and products.
Milestones:Parametron, 1954Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model FOdd Comments and Strange Doings in UnixMauchly And Eckert’s Other ComputersPC-1: The 1954 Computer With No Tubes, Relays, Or TransistorsBubble memoryWhatever Happened To The Computer Of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto StoryEnergizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system