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The Way It Was:. Tales from a life in computing. Anecdotes from my experiences with computers and the people who worked with them, starting in 1959. Accurate to the best of my memory, but I cannot document all of it. Saturday, May 26, 2007. John Backus, 1924-2007. Died on March 17. Long before I met him, he made two contributions that had major effects on my career- as well as on the field of computing: FORTRAN. John's team invented and implemented the original FORTRAN. For the IBM 704 computer. Relative...
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The Way It Was:. Tales from a life in computing. Anecdotes from my experiences with computers and the people who worked with them, starting in 1959. Accurate to the best of my memory, but I cannot document all of it. Wednesday, April 09, 2008. Did Churchill deliberately sacrifice Coventry? There is a controversial, but widely accepted, belief. That on Nov. 14, 1940 Winston Churchill decided not to have the RAF defend Coventry against a major German bombing raid. The Bletchley Park Trust. My first PL/I pr...
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The Way It Was:. Tales from a life in computing. Anecdotes from my experiences with computers and the people who worked with them, starting in 1959. Accurate to the best of my memory, but I cannot document all of it. Monday, July 31, 2006. Prior to IBM's 1964 introduction of the System/360 family of computers [1], computer memories were generally measured and addressed using the same units in which they were accessed:. Of 8, 12, 16, 24, 29, 32, 48, or 60 bits, depending on the computer),. Fortunately, no...
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The Way It Was:. Tales from a life in computing. Anecdotes from my experiences with computers and the people who worked with them, starting in 1959. Accurate to the best of my memory, but I cannot document all of it. Sunday, May 27, 2007. Said flatly that no computer would give a Chess Master an interesting game in the 20th Century. I was surprised that he would bet against technology over such a long time scale- 28 years. And player for Canada in the Chess Olympiad. We also needed to agree on the defini...
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46 seconds in 2007. The Way It Was:. Tales from a life in computing. Anecdotes from my experiences with computers and the people who worked with them, starting in 1959. Accurate to the best of my memory, but I cannot document all of it. Wednesday, January 30, 2008. 195 minutes in 1944,. 46 seconds in 2007. The winner of a contest. To break a new message in a German cipher from World War II used a laptop PC and special software to compete. With a reconstructed WW II Colossus electronic computer.
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The Way It Was:. Tales from a life in computing. Anecdotes from my experiences with computers and the people who worked with them, starting in 1959. Accurate to the best of my memory, but I cannot document all of it. Monday, June 26, 2006. Computer Architecture, Alan Perlis. Alan J. Perlis. Was not only a wonderful human being, an excellent mentor to many computer scientists, and a talented coiner of aphorisms. 1] Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University. Monday, June 19, 2006.
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The Way It Was:. Tales from a life in computing. Anecdotes from my experiences with computers and the people who worked with them, starting in 1959. Accurate to the best of my memory, but I cannot document all of it. Monday, October 16, 2006. My first PL/I program. Was a few dozen lines transliterated from Algol. I compiled it using IBM's PL/I F compiler. For the IBM System/360. To resolve this dilemma, the compiler was divided into a large number of "phases." [3]. Converted its input into legal PL/I; wh...
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The Way It Was:. Tales from a life in computing. Anecdotes from my experiences with computers and the people who worked with them, starting in 1959. Accurate to the best of my memory, but I cannot document all of it. Monday, October 05, 2009. 50 Years ago: IBM 1401. I never programmed the IBM 1401. Although I used mainframes that used a 1401 to do their input and output spooling. An article by John Murrell. In the San Jose Mercury News. Occupied a large, air-conditioned room,. Sold for $3,400,000. We may...
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The Way It Was:. Tales from a life in computing. Anecdotes from my experiences with computers and the people who worked with them, starting in 1959. Accurate to the best of my memory, but I cannot document all of it. Thursday, December 28, 2006. Tales from another life. No, not reincarnation. Dick Swenson is a former colleague at the University of Toronto, and has some interesting tales of his own. Posted by Jim Horning at 12:14 PM. Monday, December 18, 2006. In those days, computers were people! Combine...
