Collaborate Disseminate
The Q1 desktop microcomputer, the world’s first microcomputer that was uncovered in storage boxes by accident by cleaners at Kingston University in London, is going on the auction block at Heritage Auctions, along with a later version and a printer.Con… Continue reading World’s first microcomputer is up for auction right now
Although we usually imagine the conditions in Ancient Egypt to be much like the Egypt of today, back during the Holocene there was significantly more rain as a result of …read more Continue reading Rediscovering The Nile: The Ancient River That Was Once Overlooked By The Egyptian Pyramids
We take for granted that electrical power standards are generally unified across countries and territories. Europe for instance has a standard at 230 volts AC, with a wide enough voltage …read more Continue reading How Italians Got Their Power
Our own Dan Maloney has been on a Voyager kick for the past couple of years. Voyager, the space probe. As a long-term project, he has been trying to figure …read more Continue reading Institutional Memory, On Paper
After more than four decades in space and having traveled a combined 44 billion kilometers, it’s no secret that the Voyager spacecraft are closing in on the end of their …read more Continue reading The Computers of Voyager
During the 1980s and 1990s Novell was one of those names that you could not avoid if you came even somewhat close to computers. Starting with selling computers and printers, …read more Continue reading Going Canadian: The Rise and Fall of Novell
When Ethernet was originally envisioned, it would use a common, shared medium (the ‘Ether’ part), with transmitting and collision resolution handled by the carrier sense multiple access with collision detection …read more Continue reading How DEC’s LANBridge 100 Gave Ethernet a Fighting Chance
Maybe best known as the company which brought a splash of color to corporate and scientific computing with its Indigo range of computer systems, Silicon Graphics Inc. (later SGI) burst …read more Continue reading The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
There’s a saying among recreational mariners that the word “boat” is actually an acronym for “bring out another thousand”, as it seems you can’t operate one for long without committing …read more Continue reading How to Properly Patch Your Iowa-Class Battleship
Back in the hazy olden days of the pre-2000s, navigating between two locations generally required someone to whip out a paper map and painstakingly figure out the most optimal route …read more Continue reading Where Graph Theory Meets The Road: The Algorithms Behind Route Planning