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Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz—Stephen Wolfram Blog edit / delete
A nice overview of Leibniz's contributions to computational thinking, with many photos of his notes.
to ag0700 computational-thinking computing history leibniz maths retrocomputing ... on 10 July 2014
Tony Freeth and Alexander Jones. "The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism." ISAW Papers 4 (February, 2012) edit / delete
Reverse-engineering the planet display in the Antikythera mechanism.
to antikythera astronomy history mechanica retrotech reverse-engineering ... on 22 June 2014
Beamish Transport Online edit / delete
I managed to waste most of Saturday morning reading back in this blog. I must actually visit Beamish again at some point...
to bus history industry rail retrotech tram transport ... on 04 June 2014
AmericanRadioHistory.Com - Documenting the History of Radio TV and FM broadcasting edit / delete
Scanned radio and TV magazines.
to history magazines radio retrotech tv ... on 28 April 2014
First-Hand Histories - GHN: IEEE Global History Network edit / delete
Some remarkably detailed stories here. The one on SAGE and its successors is particularly interesting.
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Software Innovations edit / delete
Key innovations in the history of computing -- and the degree to which patents had anything to do with them.
to history innovation invention patent retrocomputing ... on 05 March 2014
MIT Radiation Lab series edit / delete
Scanned versions of the books that the MIT Rad Lab produced after the end of WW2 about their work on radar (as referenced in documents on the Manchester Baby computer).
to electronics etext history mit radar radio retrotech ww2 ... on 09 February 2014
The Harvard Classics / Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf : Free Books : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive edit / delete
"My purpose in selecting- The Harvard Classics was to provide the literary materials from which a careful and persistent reader might gain a fair view of the progress of man observing , recording, inventing, and imagining from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century."
Elite: Claims about numbers sold etc. (very poorly researched Guardian article from very poorly researched material by Francis Spufford) edit / delete
Criticism of the oft-repeated rubbish about Elite selling more copies than there were BBC Micros.
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British programming languages of the early 1950s.
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tasty by Adam Sampson.