I met another Turing award winner last night - Martin Hellman. I've known Whit Diffie since Sun days, so now I know both halves of the public key/private key pair pair. 😉 en.wikipedia.org/wik...

OTD 2013: My final startup, DriveScale, is incorporated. Technical preso: www.usenix.org/sites...

OTD 1975: First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club See

A personal history about #AppleTalk and #SunMicrosystems akapugs.blog/2020/03...#AppleTalk#SunMicrosystems#MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk

OTD 1986 (40 years!): #SunMicrosystems goes public. Scan of Red Herring with lots of facts and figures: drive.google.com/fil...

Behold the mighty CDC 405 punched card reader - 1200 cards/minute vacuum fed from a vibrating bed. My first input device!

Crying now. Please watch this. And thank you Tom for reminding us.

From an early Nokia GSM ad? Can anyone translate?

OTD 1980: First meeting of the IEEE 802 standards committee.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

Long form "portrait" of Ivan Sutherland - extraordinary computing pioneer & mentor.

OTD 1975, Digital announces the #PDP-11/70. With up to 4 Megabytes(!) of memory. Princeton's PDP-11/45 had 80K bytes of memory. Ran UNIX just fine.

OTD 1982: The founding of #SunMicrosystems.

Before transistors, relays were widely used in telephony switches. They were much slower, but much more reliable than vacuum tubes. This 1951 booklet, "NO. 5 CROSSBAR" from Bell Labs describes the bad-ass mainframe of relays. Lots of photos and diagrams. drive.google.com/dri...

RIP Sun Lab blog.cs.brown.edu/2026/02/17/a...

OTD 1961: Burroughs announces the B5000 computer. Transcript from a 1985 conference about the B5000 here: conservancy.umn.edu/...

Ever wonder about the state of Data Processing before the computer? Behold "The Punched Card" - 200 glorious pages from 1952 describing the state of the art of electro-mechanical paper pushing! With fabulous fifties art and culture! drive.google.com/dri... 1/2

80 years ago today: ENIAC revealed! This is a great book about ENIAC:

This is amazing. Actually all of Rob’s stuff is amazing, but this is 50%more amazing than the last amazing thing. 😅😁👍

OTD 1980: Apollo Computer incorporated.

Semper #Solaris

Beginning to scan some of my telecom stuff. Here's an ATT map from 1893.

Friendly neighborhood unicorn!

ENIAC Day Celebration Feb. 15th - 80 years! Near Philly. Wish I could be there. www.helicoptermuseum...

Wow, love this👾

Every American needs to watch this:

Is it a coincidence that Ken Thompson's birthday (1998) was the same day that Bill Gates got a pie in the face?

Me circa 1972 at the console of an NCR Century 100. See akapugs.blog/2018/05...

Jan 30, 2025 - It's Doug Engelbart's 100th birthday! We're celebrating online free-range style with some gems from his remarkable legacy. Join Us: dougengelbart.org/Dougs-100th

OTD 2021: Twitter acquires the remnants of DriveScale. blocksandfiles.com/2...

A tale of 2 TCLs. Ousterhout's TCL (nee Tool Command Language) is a simple scripting language dating from 1986 or so. The killer app for TCL was 'expect', which is for automating control of otherwise interactive programs/connections. But circa 1980... 1/2

Tried to pay estimated tax via IRS Webpay site. (I know, 1% problem) I've done this many times before, but this year it doesn't work on Chrome! - either Linux or Chomebook - cookies cleared. Worked on iPad/Safari. Scum weasels!

Discovered this cool Youtube channel today. Brief highlights from interviews with ACM Turing award winners.

DPUs, GPUs, Smart NICs, offloads, Front-ends, ... nothing ever really changes. See "From Punched Cards to SmartNICS - A Personal Journey" from 2020. Oldie but goodie.

R.I.P. Mike Flynn, processor architect and professor. One of the designers of the awesome IBM 360 model 91.

Aw man 😞 Rest in peace Mr Cheifet, host of Computer Chronicles: obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei... What a legend. His work in both presenting and preserving the early days of computer history has been (and will continue to be) deeply appreciated! My condolences to his family and friends.

Found my great-great-grandparents in the Odd Fellows cemetery in Gonzales, Texas. I definitely got the odd gene. The Orts' came from northern Germany, near Denmark.

Born this day, 1903: John von Neumann, polymath (from Mars?) Great book - fictionalized biography with stories about JvN told by other famous people: "The MANIAC" en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Fruity, nutty, sweet; and a little goes a long way. Kinda like fruitcake in a bottle. The Malmsey is better, but couldn't find it this year.

Merry Christmas! In a huge family, "under the tree" takes on non-Euclidean meaning.

The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S: high school hackers from the 60s and 70s. I've known a bunch of these folks - smart cookies.

OTD 1983: EOL of the awesome IBM 3330 disk. d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloud...

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

OTD 1997: #Nokia announces acquisition of #Ipsilon Networks (my baby) Became the 3rd largest firewall appliance business for about 10 years. www.networkworld.com...

OTD 1968: The Mother of All Demos, by Douglas Engelbart and William English. www.youtube.com/watc... I knew Bill English 20 years later when he was working for #SunMicrosystems.

OTD 1906: Grace Hopper is born. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

OTD 1888: Hollereith's tabulating machine installed at the Census Bureau. www.smithsonianmag.c...

OTD 1962: Inauguration of the Manchester/Ferranti Atlas supercomputer. First with virtual memory!