30 April 2006
History of Computing, Part II
When I wrote immediately below about the history of my involvement with computers, I left a few things out. So, for completeness, there are several other hardware/software platforms that need to be included, however archaic:
That also leaves off the abortive attempt to learn FORTRAN back in the days of punch cards and batch jobs, on some kind of big honking IBM machine. Sorry for the omissions.
Finding links that refer to the above is left as an exercise to the reader.
- A DEC 10 running TOPS 20;
- PDP 11/70 and VAX 750, both running some flavor of UNIX;
- Some big Honeywell thing running MULTICS; and
- Symbolics Lisp Machine
That also leaves off the abortive attempt to learn FORTRAN back in the days of punch cards and batch jobs, on some kind of big honking IBM machine. Sorry for the omissions.
Finding links that refer to the above is left as an exercise to the reader.
