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Review: Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, by Kurt W. Beyer

Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Grace Hopper was a pioneer computer scientist before such a profession ever existed. Brought up in comfortable surroundings in Manhattan and schooled at Vassar, Hopper brought her sharp intellect, organizational powers and an unrelenting drive to her work. She started her career at the Harvard Computation Laboratory at the beginning of World War II, working [...]

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December 7, 1963 – First “authorized” use of instant replay in a sporting event

Posted in Uncategorized on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

On this day, Dec. 7, 1963, the first authorized use of “instant replay” was used in the annual Army-Navy college football game. Instant replay is now typically used during breaks in play, where tape is often slowed or “frozen” so that the preceding play can be analyzed more in detail. It was only used on [...]

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William Crowther’s “Adventure” – the first computer adventure game

Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I was speaking with a friend last night about an early computer game I played at Hartwick College’s computer center about 1981.  I had always known it as “Adventure;” but knew very little about its origins or background.
Well, after “trolling” the internet for an hour or so this morning, I found a few references to the [...]

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Found on eBay: Original Apple I w/documentation

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) has a wonderful story today about an eBay auction for an original Apple I computer, which starts out at $50,000. And what do you get for your winning bid?  TUAW explains:
“A non-working Apple I motherboard, the original shipping box (with the return address being the home of Steve Jobs’ parents), and the [...]

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