文章
首页 我的博文
用户3826190 2011-11-23 17:35
How it used to be: Programmable Logic
Note: Here's a "How it used to be" story as told by Aubrey Kagan, a professional engineer with a BSEE from the Technion-Israel Institute of Tech ...
用户3826190 2011-11-23 16:39
Photo gallery: Computer addicts
Can you still imagine what life was like before the Internet and email? I must admit that, as the years go by, I'm finding it more and more difficu ...
用户3826190 2011-11-22 22:40
Review of Sanjay Churiwala, Sapan Garg's Principles of VLSI RTL Design – A Pract
Generally speaking, there are only so many books I can read on RTL design before my eyes start to glaze over. Given that, there's the occasional ge ...
用户3826190 2011-11-22 22:04
Some things to ponder (and perhaps worry about)
I cannot remember from where I originally got this first tidbit of trivia. I know that it was sometime over the weekend, but that encompasses a cou ...
用户3826190 2011-11-13 15:30
Strange modes of transport and other "stuff"
Let's start this article with the fact that the folks at Scientific American have just finished digitizing all of the early issues from 1845 throug ...
用户3826190 2011-11-11 17:30
Amazing video with humming birds
Before we talk about the incredible video, I have a nugget of knowledge I'd like to share. I just ran across the following tidbit of trivia on the ...
用户3826190 2011-11-10 12:04
How it used to be: CAD, CAE, and Netlisting
Editor's Note: This "How it used to be" piece was emailed to me by a reader named Glen. I'm still trying to persuade him to send me a pair of "T ...
用户3826190 2011-11-9 11:40
Of cyber-attacks and Scientology
Cyber-attacks I was driving to work a few days ago when I heard something interesting on the National Public Radio (NPR). One of the stories re ...
用户3826190 2011-11-9 10:46
Amazing, Silego sees 1127% growth!
Well, this is jolly good news. Have you read my article Using GreenPAK to design, program custom chip in minutes ? The good news is that S ...
用户3826190 2011-11-3 17:56
How it used to be: The inability to migrate from one technology to another
When I was a young lad in England in the early 1970s, I used to read a monthly electronics hobbyist magazine called Practical Electronics . ...
用户3826190 2011-11-3 15:42
Looking for hexadecimal Nixie Tubes or similar display devices
I'm working on a hobby project with my friend Joe Farr in England. This little beauty is going to be a 4bit Heath Robinson Rube Goldberg (HRRG) Ste ...
用户3826190 2011-10-28 09:58
How it used to be: Big computers talking to little computers
As I mentioned in my previous "How it used to be" article, I started my first job after graduating university in the summer of 1980 at Internatio ...
用户3826190 2011-10-27 12:04
A review of Timothy Taylor's The Artificial Ape
Assuming that you believe in evolution (which I do), then the way most people think about things is that sometime around 1.8 million years ago, for ...
用户3826190 2011-10-27 11:54
How it used be: Testing honking big computers
Writing about how things were brings back all kinds of memories. My first job after graduating university was at International Computers Limited (I ...
用户3826190 2011-10-26 17:11
How it used to be: Paper tapes and punched cards (Part 4)
One advantage of punched cards over paper tapes was that the textual equivalent of the patterns of holes could be printed along the top ...
关闭 站长推荐上一条 /2 下一条