https://pinboard.in/u:keithpeter/public/ recent bookmarks from keithpeter 2021-03-05T12:24:10+00:00 https://rmurphey.medium.com/girl-computer-31ecd328bc53 keithpeter> "I wrote programs in BASIC, though for the life of me I can’t remember what any of them did. The programs that were the most fun, though, were the ones whose assembly I painstakingly transcribed, hunting and pecking with my tiny fingers, from the back of magazines — pages and pages of letters and numbers I didn’t understand on any level, and yet they made magic happen if I got every single one right." << This is how a lot of people got started then (early/mid 80s). So how do they get started now?]]> computers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:keithpeter/b:9b9b4e1546b3/ 2020-11-19T17:04:34+00:00 https://hackaday.com/2015/12/08/retrotechtacular-a-desktop-computer-from-1965/ keithpeter notes computers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:keithpeter/b:53a4e7be6642/ 2020-11-19T16:58:13+00:00 https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/olivetti-programma-101-at-the-origins-of-the-personal-computer/ keithpeter> "I remember that one day I received a call from Roberto Olivetti: "I want to see you for a complex project I'm building". It involved the design not of a box containing mechanisms and stamped circuits, but a personal object, something that had to live with a person, a person with his chair sitting at a table or desktop and that had to start a relationship of comprehension, of interaction, something quite new because before then computers were as big as a wardrobe. With a wardrobe we don't have any relationship: in fact the most beautiful wardrobes disappear in the wall. But this wasn't a wardrobe or a box, this was a machine designed to be part of your personal entourage." << Mario Bellini, architect and designer, 2011 quoted in "Programma 101 - memory of the future". Getting my head around a device that did not support trigonometry or any special functions (c.f. Dartmouth BASIC a decade before). But it was popular and relatively cheap for the time. Discrete silicon transistor logic?]]> notes computers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:keithpeter/b:68cc2ae1eb09/ 2016-09-27T17:02:06+00:00 http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html keithpeter computers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:keithpeter/b:721956eb2fcc/ 2016-04-09T16:17:26+00:00 http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/cover_story/2016/04/alexa_cortana_and_siri_aren_t_novelties_anymore_they_re_our_terrifyingly.html keithpeter computers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:keithpeter/b:d1bf957c0d9a/ 2016-04-08T06:37:10+00:00 https://david-smith.org/blog/2016/04/04/a-nerds-review-of-the-tesla-model-s/ keithpeter computers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:keithpeter/b:05f3b19ed803/ 2013-03-26T21:57:33+00:00 http://www.dansdata.com/ keithpeter computers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:keithpeter/b:d9a8cb2d1b6c/ 2009-07-23T18:47:52+00:00 http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apple-has-91-of-market-for-1000-PCs-says-NPD/1248313624 keithpeter computers https://pinboard.in/u:keithpeter/b:10b04ebe4199/ 2009-07-14T18:38:19+00:00 http://daringfireball.net/ keithpeter computers https://pinboard.in/u:keithpeter/b:614bab196c03/