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History of Television Studios in London - TV Studio History
"An incomplete history of London’s television studios". And very comprehensive.
The English Electric KDF9 Computer
Including lots of documentation, an emulator and the surviving operating systems. Unfortunately the latter doesn't include the interactive timesharing systems that once existed.
to emulation history kdf9 retrocomputing timesharing ... on 10 February
British Subscriber Trunk Dialling Codes
"In fact the STD codes were originally designed to be as meaningful as possible to users of the telephone system: the only problem is that circumstances have altered."
to dialing history retrotech telecom telephone ... on 26 October 2025
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird | Project Gutenberg
Touring Japan - with a focus on several of the central farming areas and Hokkaido - as a solo female traveller in the summer of 1878. Well-written, sympathetic (well, about as much as could be expected at the time) and overall an interesting overview of many aspects of Japanese society at the time.
[ih] early networking: "the solution"
Jack Haverty on the invention of the IPv4 checksum algorithm.
to checksum history ip networking ... on 17 October 2024
research!rsc: Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler
With analysis of the surprisingly short source code.
to backdoor bell-labs compiler history retrocomputing security unix ... on 26 October 2023
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
Answering a seemingly trivial question, with a lesson about research.
to amusements history research transport ... on 29 August 2023
beggars-opera: I don’t know if I can contain...
"A Christmas Carol covers 60 years of fashion through flashbacks and they still manage to do nearly everything right."
to amusements fashion history muppets ... on 10 December 2020
ENIGMA M4 - Breaking German Navy Ciphers
Results of the project that was breaking Enigma messages found in a sunken U-Boot.
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tasty by Adam Sampson.