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I remember running live and then installing from Yggdrasil in the early 90s on 486 with 8MB RAM and 250MB hard disk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X Really like…

I was fortunate to go to a high school that got a single Apple ][+ in the science department for physics, and a grant to pay a student programmer to develop educational physics sof…

From what I've seen, it's the other way around - computers are still fun for the old nerds. I go to events like vintage computer festivals, and old folks are having a party with co…

Yes, and the order is important. Sending a carriage return and linefeed to a TTY 33 and then printing works fine. Doing them in the opposite order, if the carriage is to the right …

How the world has changed, repeatedly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremvax

There was at least one non-identical ISA slot: https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT_Syst... https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/understanding-pcxt-slot-8/

That's exactly what happened in Ashburn. Loudoun County VA is currently meeting pretty much its entire operating budget with data center tax revenue, and property tax rates have be…

If one were to release an AI app - what would be an appropriate license? Genuine question.

This would be something neat to do with a core memory array, just like this but bigger: https://www.core64.io/

You'd be surprised to learn how many people fell out of airplanes because of lack of seat belts.

And a flying field was established at College Park, MD where Orville Wright began teaching Army officers to fly in 1909. That airport is still operating and is the oldest continuou…

Super common technique. Aircraft cockpit videos usually exhibit stroboscopic effects because of the scan rate of the camera and the refresh rate of the displays, and those are very…

There was also the 8089 I/O co-processor designed for the 8086/8088 that I have never seen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8089

ASCII was started in 1960. A terminal then would have been a mostly-mechanical teletype (keyboard and printer, possibly with paper tape reader/punch), without much by way of "circu…

I certainly remember magnetic media being referred to as "disc". For one quickly Googled example, the Sperry Univac 8433, may its heads never crash: https://bitsavers.trailing-edge…

FL180 is the floor of Class A airspace, "the flight levels", where airliners etc. operate. Relevant chapter from FAA "Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge": https://www.faa.g…

In a world where Burroughs/Unisys MCP still exists, I have to believe there is still production code written in Algol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP

This seems to be a bit of an echo of the 1980s and the power shift brought about by the introduction of the IBM PC - the decentralization of control over data and processes from th…

There's solid representation of Boston and DEC in particular, for example, as well as IBM, so not all /that/ "Silicon-Valley-legacy-centric". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comp…

There are a great many modern modifications available for the 8-bit Ataris, many of them from Poland where the machines saw good sales quite late compared to the US. Using modern e…

Here's some context on the RCA 1802 (COSMAC) Membership Card, also by Lee Hart at the same website, which is the real star of the lineup: http://www.retrotechnology.com/memship/mem…

The Udvar Hazy is being expanded to hold more stuff. The downtown location has more interpretation of artifacts - sometimes at the Udvar Hazy it's hard to really appreciate what yo…

The Henry Ford has tons of cool stuff. A running Apple 1. The working Wright Experience replica of the Wright Flyer that was flown at Kitty Hawk for the 100th anniversary. So much …

If you can, combine the NSA visit with a visit to the System Source Museum: https://museum.syssrc.com/ A great museum in its own right, and some overlapping with the NSA Museum (e.…

A fun telling of the story of that boat by the Fat Electrician. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s-ZY0lnGeI