History of Computer Hardware

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MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! We Build and Run it! (www.youtube.com)

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kewl

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silicon transistors — long awaited by the electronics industry — are finally out of the laboratory and on the market (1954) (lemmy.ml)

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https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/first_silicon_transistors.html

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Image of a magazine advertisement with the title text "silicon transistors now in production!"

Text at the bottom left identifies it as the June 1954 issue of ELECTRONICS.

The advertisement consists of a row of eight three-pin solid state components "growing" in a field. There is a building in the distance behind them. The components are alternately labeled with Texas Instruments' Map-of-Texas logo and the number "900". From left to right, each component is closer to the viewer, and the fifth-to-closest one is labeled "actual size".

This text is overlaid on the image:

silicon transistors — long awaited by the electronics industry — are finally out of the laboratory and on the market ... brought to you first by Texas Instruments, a leading transistor manufacturer. A new and unrivaled degree of design freedom is created by the TI n-p-n grown junction silicon transistor, now available in production units with glass-to-metal hermetic sealing, silicon transistors radically improve temperature stability and power handling while retaining the best amplification and frequency characteristics of previous semiconductor devices.

write today for detailed information on the silicon transistor!

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"The Orange Micro card is a Wintel compatible computer in your Macintosh" (1997) (lemmy.ml)

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https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/orange-micros-orangepc

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How did the world before BIOS, compilers and OS look like? (lemmy.ml)

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I really don't understand how complex programs like compilers and browsers have come to an existence.

From little what I know about 8086, it resembles a digital abacus in a way that we can set, push and do all the fancy magic with registers and store them in memories using buttons.

For the like of me, I cannot figure out how an OS was created out of thin air? Do they keep pushing, adding and popping registers back in the day to create OS or compiler? What about the TTY? Was there no such thing as booting? What about file systems? Partitions? How did any of that even work in the first place?

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30 years after: A Retrospective into Intel's infamous Pentium FDIV Bug (www.youtube.com)

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A Trove of Apple Promo Videos from the '80s and '90s (bytecellar.com)

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Pages by Pages - Wrestle WordPerfect. Futz with FrameMaker, Or simply use Pages (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

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Tano Dragon - The Color Computer You've Been Waiting For. (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

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Northglenn Software's Artificial Intelligence Guru (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

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THINK's Lightspeed C (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

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Are You a Windows or Apple User? - Use this simple chart from MacAddict (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

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Connectix QuickCam - The first webcam (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

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U.S. Blocks Shipment of Ken Thompson's Chess-Playing Computer to Soviet Union (1982) (www.washingtonpost.com)

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In the last 17 minutes of this video from 2019 you can hear Ken Thompson talk about chess computers and this incident in particular.

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Inside the Intel 386 processor die: the clock circuit (www.righto.com)

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Highly interesting read by Ken Shirriff

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How Dead Is Moore's Law? (Sabine Hossenfelder) (piped.video)

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4443753

In the past 10 years or so, tech specialists have repeatedly voiced concerns that the progress of computing power will soon hit the wall. Miniaturisation has physical limits, and then what? Have we reached these limits? Is Moore’s law dead? That’s what we’ll talk about today.

00:00 Intro

00:53 Moore’s Law And Its Demise

06:23 Current Strategies

13:14 New Materials

15:50 New Hardware

18:58 Summary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTnpy7sw2g

https://piped.video/watch?v=gWTnpy7sw2g

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Soyuz "Globus" Mechanical Navigation Computer Part 1: Grand Opening (youtube.com)

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Soyuz "Globus" Mechanical Navigation Computer Part 2: Powering Up

Soyuz "Globus" Mechanical Navigation Computer Part 3: Landing Function

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Printing real headline news on the Commodore 64 with The Newsroom's Wire Service (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

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Infinite Mac: browser-based 68k and PowerPC emulators running System 1.0 through 7.5.5 and Mac OS 7.6 through 9.0.4 (blog.persistent.info)

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besides the above five domains, https://infinitemac.org has multiple point releases of every major release of the Mac System Software from 1.0 onwards.

source code is here: https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac

@mihaip@hachyderm.io - in case you see this - thank you so much for building this!

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Oral History of Benny Lau and Lee Lau (invidious.projectsegfau.lt)

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The PalmPilot Returns, This Time In Your Browser (hackaday.com)

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