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Video from the Computer History Museum

Posted in History of Technology, Summer Core on Jun 15th, 2009 No Comments »

After reading about ways to link to video, I thought I would share one of the stranger movies from the Computer History Museum’s YouTube channel.  This film was made by IBM in 1965.  Things have changed.

What I love about the videos on the Computer History Museum YouTube channel is that they are a mix of [...]

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Bits and Bites have history too

Posted in History of Technology on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »

I was struck by the pace of change as I read through the size information — from the big floppys (which were in fact floppy) I saved my work on when I had an IBM PC jr (the Edsel of the PC world) to the Terabyte backup drive I bought last month — I was [...]

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