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UWA week 35 (2nd semester, week 6) ↓

computer-systems history The Bug in the Computer Bug Story

8:33am Wed 28th Aug, Christopher M.

"Soon after a team of engineers discovered a moth in a machine at Harvard, the word bug became a standard part of the programmer s lexicon. Or did it?" https daily.jstor.org the-bug-in-the-computer-bug-story

UWA week 34 (2nd semester, week 5) ↓

computer-systems history Historical price of computer memory and storage

6:18am Mon 19th Aug, Christopher M.

Notice that the Y-axis is logarithmic https ourworldindata.org grapher historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage And there's links to many other interesting plots near the bottom of the page.

UWA week 31 (2nd semester, week 2) ↓

computer-systems history Why Linux won the Unix wars

10:16am Sun 4th Aug, Christopher M.

https siliconfolklore.com scale

UWA week 30 (2nd semester, week 1) ↓

computer-systems history What Can We Learn from the Computers of 1966? 👍x1

12:39pm Wed 24th Jul, Christopher M.

Harry R. Lewis has been a Harvard CS professor, and thinks there's a lesson for today from a time when "Computers were experienced as physical things" Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity https www.harvardmagazine.com 2024 07 harry-l...