There is a load button and a selector switch on the machine, but they do just barely enough to get the process started. The rest in accomplished by a technique sometimes called the “bootstrap technique.” – Buchholz: The System Design of the IBM Type 701 Computer
Division should be the inverse of multiplication. Since multiplying two full-word (35-bit) factors generates a double-length (70-bit) product in the accumulator and /MQ/ register, division has been similarly arranged to start with a double-length (70-bit) dividend stored in the accumulator and /MQ/ register. This appears to be an elementary piece of logic, and it is surprising that a double-length dividend has not been provided in other computers of this type.
Steve Bellovin’s series on the early history of Usenet: The Early History of Usenet: Prologue The Technological Setting Hardware and Economics File Format Implementation and User Experience Authentication and Norms The Public Announcement Usenet Growth and B-news The Great Renaming Retrospective Thoughts Errata There is also a version on CircleId. Not sure which one is the original. This is the one I found first, but I couldn’t find all parts:
Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog: Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote
Vintage Photos of 12 Cool Flying Cars That Really Existed in the Past
Adam Savage vs The “Perpetual Motion” Machine!: a cypher where he arranged all the letters of the alphabet in a circle and then used the exact opposite letters (No exact date was given, but the letter in which the name of “Orphirius” was mentioned was written some time after 1714.
Dr. Charles E. Molnar: Metastability Lecture: One reviewer made a marvelous comment in rejecting one of the early papers, saying that if this problem really existed it would be so important that everybody knowledgeable in the field would have to know about it, and “I’m an expert and I don’t know about it, so therefore it must not exist.”
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=MacPaint_Gallery.txt
Girl With The Dogs: Ferocious Doberman brothers at the spa Dobermans were bred in the late 19th century by a tax collector named Frederick Louis Doberman [actually Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann]. For obvious reasons, tax collectors were not the most desirable people, so they required a strong guard dog that could protect them while they were ruining people’s days.
Colossus - The Greatest Secret in the History of Computing
Apple was using the term “apps” in 1983: 8-Bit Show And Tell: Apple Lisa 2: Inside & Out (Youtube)
Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity: How to be an Atheist in Medieval Europe How the Reformation Trained Us to be Sceptics How to be a Shakespearean Atheist How to be a Puritan Atheist The Spiritual Quest Against Religion Jesus, Hitler and The Abolition of God
Counting the days Scaliger defined something he called the Julian Period of 7980 years, which was a product of three different dating cycles: The 19-year Meton cycle used in lunar-solar calendars, such as the Jewish one, the 28-year solar cycle, which is the number of years it takes for days of the week to repeat in the Julian calendar and the 15-year indiction cycle used for dating medieval manuscripts. Working backwards 4731 BCE is the last time that all three cycles were in their respective first years.
Reviving a computer system of 25 years ago - Wirth, 2014
Major version Last minor version End of mainstream support End of extended support Windows XP SP3 2009-04-14 2014-04-08 Windows Vista SP2 2012-04-10 2017-04-11 Windows 7 SP1 2015-01-13 2020-01-14 Windows 8 8.1 2018-01-09 2023-01-10 For Windows 10, the spring releases have 18 months of support while the fall releases have 30 months of support. Sources: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-quietly-extends-consumer-support-for-windows-7-vista/ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4527878/faq-about-extended-security-updates-for-windows-7 https://techtalk.pcmatic.com/2016/12/27/windows-vista/
https://twobithistory.org/2020/06/28/rest.html: This is why, rather than saying that nobody understands REST, we should just think of the term “REST” as having been misappropriated. The modern notion of a REST API has historical links to Fielding’s REST architecture, but really the two things are separate.
title Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures author Roy Thomas Fielding published Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2000 url https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding_dissertation.pdf
Timeline of Science Fiction Ideas, Technology and Inventions (sorted by Publication Date)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY