Farewell to computing pioneer Margaret Hamilton, whose groundbreaking software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon and shaped modern software engineering. A remarkable legacy. 🚀
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@bithistory.bsky.socialFarewell to computing pioneer Margaret Hamilton, whose groundbreaking software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon and shaped modern software engineering. A remarkable legacy. 🚀
@jordanjmc.bsky.socialWhy are Debian, Slackware, Red Hat, SUSE, Gentoo, and Arch so different when they all use Linux?
The answer lies in how each distribution assembles and maintains an operating system around a shared kernel.
The Linux Family:
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@smartermsp.bsky.socialLong before AI assistants and modern PCs, a television special imagined how computers would change everyday life. This #TechTimeWarp looks back at a fascinating prediction of the digital future. #Technology #ComputingHistory https://bit.ly/4h8nSiW
@ithistory.orgThe patch panel is the iconic image of an analog computer: a board of wires you rewire for each problem. Bernd Ulmann, who builds and restores these machines, makes the case for leaving it behind, and shows the reconfigurable computer he built without one.
#AnalogComputing #ComputingHistory
@mabelquill.bsky.socialThe GNU Project Is Announced On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman announced plans for GNU, a freely shared operating system compatible with Unix. #TodayInHistory #MabelQuill #GNUProject #FreeSoftware #ComputingHistory #HistoryTok #HistoryFacts #LearnHistory #fyp
@ithistory.orgPeggy Kidwell, curator emerita at the Smithsonian, on a strange feature of the modern museum: the most used computer in the room is the one in your pocket.
#AnalogComputing #ComputingHistory
@ithistory.orgGeorge Dyson, historian of technology: as we build an essentially unlimited amount of digital processing, more of our computing ends up resting on continuous functions. Analog is back, whether we like it or not.
#AnalogComputing #ComputingHistory
@jordanjmc.bsky.socialUNIX became more than a family descended from Bell Labs source.
Source ancestry, standards, certification, and Unix-like compatibility eventually described different relationships to UNIX.
UNIX Beyond the Original Source
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@acm.org#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1954, the first successful FORTRAN program was executed.
Developed at IBM by a team led by John Backus, FORTRAN was designed to make programming scientific and engineering problems easier.
More #OTD, here: buff.ly/yg2MIlN
@ithistory.orgClive England of cray-history.net on the bet behind Cray supercomputing: breadth over depth, many simulations over one perfect answer.
#AnalogComputing #ComputingHistory
@acm.orgHappy Birthday, ACM! Today, our organization turns 79 years old.
#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1947, a group of computing pioneers came together to establish the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Discover more #OTD in #ComputingHistory: buff.ly/yg2MIlN
@blakespot.bsky.socialHappy 40th Birthday, Apple IIgs!
#AppleII #AppleIIgs #Apple #vintageApple #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #vintagecomputing #computing #computinghistory #vintagetech #tech #photo #CRT #floppydisk #nostalgia #BBS #messydesk #mydesk #setups #Woz #Apple2forever #ANSI
@ithistory.orgDavid Alan Grier on the 1946 Moore School lectures: the people building digital computers treated analog as the old style, and most of them wanted to set it aside entirely to focus the money and attention on the stored program digital computer.
#AnalogComputing #ComputingHistory
@retroresetbus.bsky.social@mabelquill.bsky.socialA Real Moth Becomes a Computer Bug On September 9, 1947, engineers working on Harvard's Mark II computer logged a moth found inside the machine. #TodayInHistory #MabelQuill #ComputerBug #ComputingHistory #MarkII #HistoryTok #HistoryFacts #LearnHistory #fyp
@archive.orgRead Nomura's essay and many more in Vanishing Culture.
#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #ComputingHistory #TextileHistory
@ithistory.orgBernd Ulmann, who builds analog computers, predicts that within twenty years they will sit inside nearly every machine as co-processors, about as routinely as graphics cards do now, handling AI and differential equations alongside the digital computer.
#AnalogComputing #ComputingHistory
@ithistory.orgBernd Ulmann: an analog program is a spaghetti of wires that turns the machine into a model behaving just like the problem you want to solve.
#AnalogComputing #ComputingHistory