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Speak no evil…

In danger no longer! (source) Gawker reports [from the Hindustan Times] that Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority has issued a list of 1,700 words [and phrases] it considers “offensive… more →

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My History of Computing (Punch cards to FORTRAN)

billatnapier wrote 3 weeks ago: The Beginnings of the Industry Herman Hollerith One of the first appearances of computer technology … more →

Tags: IBM, eniac, John von Neumann, Harvard University, edvac, von Neumann architecture, University of Pennsylvania

History of Computing -> "Computer History B.C. - 1940" (Part 1) — 1 comment

RAHUL NAG wrote 1 month ago: Computer History – B.C. 300  B.C. The counting board much like the later abacus is believed to … more →

Tags: computer history, Charles Babbage, difference engine, Eastman Kodak, History of computing hardware, IBM, Karl Ferdinand Braun, mechanical calculator, Nicéphore Niépce

Hollerith constant

nathanielabram wrote 3 months ago: Hollerith constant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hollerith constants, named in honor of Herm … more →

Tags: Wikipedia, Programming 2, IBM, Data, FORTRAN, hollerith, String (computer science)

Coding the Arts

dw wrote 5 months ago: It seems to me that it is becoming increasingly essential for designers to become fluent in a comput … more →

Tags: General Thoughts, Mechanical, development, Jacquard loom, Charles Babbage, Programming, technology, Software

Who installed the first computing device at the United States War Department December 9, 1888 and went on to found a company that later merged to become IBM?

Carl Leonard wrote 5 months ago: Herman Hollerith Herman Hollerith was born February 29, 1860 to a German immigrant in Buffalo, New Y … more →

Tags: Day in History, United States: History, History, Today in History, Now we know, Now WE Know em, IBM, United States Census Bureau, Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation

Computer Generations and founders — 1 comment

jacobam wrote 1 year ago:     Abacus The earliest known device to record computations was the abacus. It dates back … more →

Tags: categorized!, IBM, Charles Babbage, edvac, J. Presper Eckert

Computing memory in the 18th century - Jacquard's Loom and its punched cards — 1 comment

empoprises wrote 1 year ago: I’d be willing to bet that most of you haven’t worked with a computer that accepted punc … more →

Tags: Business, technology, IBM, Industrial Revolution, Charles Babbage, Joseph-Marie Jacquard

Science Week - Computers

tomliberman wrote 1 year ago: I don’t think anyone takes computers for granted these days so there isn’t a lot of sens … more →

Tags: Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Politics, libertarian, Computers, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, hero of alexandria, Wilhelm Shickard

IBM at Auschwitz, New Documents Edwin Black, Reader Supported News 28 February 12 — 4 comments

Jean wrote 1 year ago: Auschwitz survivor Leon Greenman displays his number tattoo. (photo: Ian Waldie/Getty Images) This i … more →

Tags: Illuminati/Terrorism/Corruption, Nazi, IBM, Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, Thomas J. Watson, leon-greenman, punched card

The Geekly with a Twist: February 24th-March 1st

Annaleigh Josephs, CSS wrote 1 year ago: Hello hello everyone…I hope you all made it out of the house for a Fat Tuesday binge because n … more →

Tags: Food & Drink, Events, Edward James Olmos, NASA, the lush, This Week in Geek History, astronomy, The Geekly Cocktail, Tim Powers

9 December: Did you know?

CC Champagne wrote 1 year ago: Did you know that it was on this day in 1425 The Catholic University of Leuven is founded? Or that i … more →

Tags: on this day, Catholic University of Leuven, YMCA, Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Doctors' Trial. Red Scare, Coronation Street, Petrified Forest National Park, Smallpox virus, first Intifada

Speak no evil...

LW wrote 1 year ago: In danger no longer! (source) Gawker reports [from the Hindustan Times] that Pakistan’s Teleco … more →

Tags: censorship, statistics, Alexander Graham Bell, Florence Nightingale, American Statistical Association, Pakistan, text messaging, Andrew Carnegie, Martin Van Buren

30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 12 — 10 comments

evasantiago310 wrote 1 year ago: Please refer back to my earlier posts and read what this challenge is about so that the later posts … more →

Tags: Alexander von Kluck, Hypoglossal nucleus, IBM, Military Cross, New York City, united states, William Howard Taft

IBM

nathanielabram wrote 1 year ago: Image via CrunchBaseInternational Business Machines (IBM) (NYSE: IBM) is an American multinational t … more →

Tags: New York, IBM, Hardware, Animal Rights, 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, Alicia Sacramone, Alfred Peet, FORTRAN, Watson

Jacquard's Web - James Essinger: Book Review

Hippo wrote 1 year ago: Book Cover for Jacquard's Web So apparently the Information Age all started with a French silk … more →

Tags: Book Review, History of Computers, History, Computers, history of computers, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Howard Aiken, IBM

Who owns the fish?...

LW wrote 1 year ago: From the good folks at Coudal Partners, a puzzle purportedly created by Albert Einstein… There … more →

Tags: einstein, Albert Einstein, Logic Puzzles, Tabulator, tabulating machine, Charles Babbage, difference engine, Puzzles, brain twisters

Leapers — 1 comment

deadwrite wrote 2 years ago: A friend of ours who passed away recently, used to joke that she only ever had twenty-three birthday … more →

Tags: Polaroids From the Old and New West, Leap Year, pope gregory, dinah shore, Tony Robbins, pirates of penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan, Melvin Purvis, Billy the Kid

Eek, a mouse!...

LW wrote 2 years ago: Via Blognator, one of a series of “Scared Dictators” in an ad campaign for ISHR (Interna … more →

Tags: Hollerith punched card, punched card, punch card, computing machine, History of Computing, Doug Engelbart, mechanical tabulator, Tabulator, tabulating machine

Did You Realize: That IBM Was Started Here? — 6 comments

Topher wrote 2 years ago: Today GM introduces yet another in his long line of occasional series: Did You Realize? As he digs i … more →

Tags: Did You Realize?, 31st St., IBM, Sea Catch


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