Category: Retrocomputing
Computer for Apollo
MIT Science Reporter – “Computer for Apollo” (1965):
(more…)Festoon
festoon – memo writer Festoon prepares a memorandum on any undesired topic, containing length sentences (default is 20) and a specified percent of manufactured nouns (default is 5), suitable for input to troff(1). Options -p -e -t (which may be concatenated as -pet ) create pointless pictures, nonsensical equations and useless tables, respectively. I remember … Continue reading “Festoon”
Apollo 11 sourcecode on Github
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code
Millionaire Calculator
Hewlett-Packard looks to end support for OpenVMS in 2020
OpenVMS, R.I.P.: 1977-2020? Hewlett-Packard looks to end support for OpenVMS, a system long valued for its reliability and break-through features, in 2020. There’s an entire generation of people who were born, graduated college and are well into their IT careers, who may have no idea that this OS, introduced in October 1977 by Digital Equipment … Continue reading “Hewlett-Packard looks to end support for OpenVMS in 2020”
Fortran vs. Algol
The Return of OS/2?
Is IBM considering an OS/2 redo? Should IBM consider a return of OS/2? A systems integrator close to the computing giant swears there’s a move afoot inside IBM to reintroduce the operating system — revered by some, reviled by many –before it faded out more than 10 years ago. He has heard this from inside … Continue reading “The Return of OS/2?”
Multics
(via mit.edu) Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) was a mainframe timesharing operating system that began at MIT as a research project in 1965. It was an important influence on operating system development. … In order to preserve the ideas and innovations that made Multics so important in the development of computer systems, Bull HN … Continue reading “Multics”
Slide Rules
(via email) Derek’s Virtual Slide Rule Gallery (A gallery of clickable simulated slide rules) I guess Alan Turing was right — you really can emulate any computer on any other computer. 🙂