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2011-10-26 17:08
Travel horrors: Landing at the old Hong Kong airport
During the course of my career, I have been fortunate enough to travel to many interesting places. Around the mid-80s, my employer sent me to visit ...
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2011-10-26 17:08
How it used to be: Paper tapes and punched cards (Part 3)
Due to the fact that teleprinters were relatively inexpensive (compared to the millions of dollars invested in the computer), a typi ...
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2011-10-25 18:53
Oh, life's little ironies!
A friend emailed me a bunch of images that reflect life's little ironies. Some of these are really funny – others are a tad sad – and some ...
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2011-10-23 11:16
How it used to be: Paper tapes and punched cards (Part 2)
The two-channel paper tape technique pioneered by Sir Charles Wheatstone was subsequently extended to five channels so as to handle ...
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2011-10-23 11:06
Practical tools and tricks
Some my recent writing projects have required me to capture and present equations, and it was not sufficient for me to use regular text like: y = ...
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2011-10-21 17:21
Friday amusement once again
I am more than ready for the weekend. As a "warm up" for two days of fun and frivolity, let's pause for a moment to take a peek at some items of in ...
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2011-10-21 17:21
All sorts of fun stuff
Here's a "warm up" for two days of fun and frivolity. Let's pause for a while to take a look at some items of interest and perhaps ponder some of l ...
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2011-10-20 10:28
How it used to be: Paper tapes and punched cards (Part 1)
Note: This material is abstracted from the books I co-authored with my friend Alvin Brown: Bebop Bytes Back (An Unconventional Guide to Computers ...
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2011-10-19 17:43
I am feeling sad
A few days ago, I was watching TV with my 16-year-old son. He's got me hooked on all the antiques-based reality TV shows that are on at the moment, ...
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2011-10-19 17:21
Check out my Mini Wind Walker
As we are all aware, it's not the size of your wind walker that matters, it's what you do with it that count. Before I introduce my Mini Win ...
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2011-10-18 16:47
How it used to be: ASCII, EBCDIC, ISO, and Unicode (Part 2)
EBCDIC Code(s) The ASCII code discussed above was quickly adopted by the majority of American computer manufacturers, and was eventually turn ...
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2011-10-14 09:47
How it used to be: ASCII, EBCDIC, ISO, and Unicode (Part 1)
Have you heard of this old engineering joke? "Standards are great ... everyone should have one!" The problem is that—very often—everyone do ...
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2011-10-14 09:18
Friday amusement: All sorts of "stuff"
This has been a long week and I'm in for a bit of a laugh... Have you seen the "Missing Missy" thread on the 27bslash6.com website? This i ...
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2011-10-12 11:24
Star Trek "gadgets" that we now have
I got an email from David Ashton—the hero in Australia who fixed my DIY Geiger counter and made it count. David asked if I had heard of the ...
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2011-10-11 11:52
How it used to be: Fan-fold paper and ASCII art
Around the late 1970s to early 1980s, the printers we used were dot-matrix or line printers of the continuous feed variety. The way I remember this ...
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