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Goal of this page Provide a dated list of major changes & updates
2022
| Nov 2 | IBM Engineering Training Program, July 19 - Aug 6, 1954 |
2018
| Feb 15 | "World's first rotating store" Booth's First Drum |
2017
| July 22 |
Gordon Bell hosts and provides continuity
- presentations by Computer Pioneers: Part 1 (1935 - 1945) - Pioneer Computers Part 2 (1943 - 1953) |
2015
| Nov 21 |
Professor Ron Mak's CHM Tour Quizes
| Mar 22 |
Added a page with images of Computer "Trees" and timelines from Gordon Bell
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2014
| Aug 29 |
added a link to
"Fundamental Processes in Charge-Controlled Storage Tubes" from
"RCA Review", Volume 12, 1951 - added Aug 2014, .pdf, 18 MByte
link is here Aug 17 |
added link to
Out of a Closet: The Early Years of
The Computer * Museum by Gordon Bell, founder of the Boston Computer Museum,
and trustee of the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA)
| July 26 |
added Doug Engelbart's Original Mouse
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2013
| March 10 |
added Computer Development (SEAC and DYSEAC) NBS Circular 551
| Jan 30 |
added
IBM cards used round holes until the early 1930s, then rectangular holes
off site, click "back" to return here
| Jan 30 |
added A series of four articles on the NTDS
by Robert Clinton,
appearing in Jim Strickland's
Volunteer Information Exchange, - relative to the NTDS at the Computer History Museum.
| Jan 5 |
added U.S. Patent 2952276 Apparatus For Storing Trains Of Pulses
Williams Tube Memory - 3 MByte pdf
| linked from Williams-Kilburn Memory Tube |
2012
| Dec 29 |
added "Who Invented the 80 column, Rectangular
Hole Punched Card?" by
Jim Strickland, 450 KByte .pdf
HTML version
| Dec 18 |
added for docent training
in an older home for Computer History Museum - about year 2002 -
| July 4 |
added Young, frisky, and learned to fix the IBM-650 from the manual | with the 5.2 megabyte .pdf of the IBM-650 service manual ;-)) May 23 |
added Comments on SAGE Jamming Resistance as part of
IBM SAGE
| Mar 17 |
added A Second Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital
Computing Systems Ballistic Research Lab, June 1957 Report No. 1010
| Mar 12 |
added Recollections of the SAGE System
by David E. Casteel, Captain, USAF (ret)
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2011
| Oct 20 |
added Maddida - a digital differential analyzer - 1950 - 2 MB
| July 24 |
"A Second Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems",
Ballistic Research Lab, June 1957 Report No. 1010 (2nd) (Table of Contents) .pdf, 8 MB
| - Linked from here. July 23 | IBM vs Seven Dwarfs, Why did IBM win?
| June 23 | link to
"On the prehistory of programmable machines: musical automata, looms, calculators"
Teun Koetsier (2001)
| June 21 | link to
"The Development of PUNCH CARD TABULATION in the Bureau of the Census"
1890-1940, with Outlines of Actual Tabulation Programs - by Leon E. Truesdell,
- a Google Book - 7.3 mega bytes
| Apr 7 | Video Clips
- on YouTube - EDSAC, and IBM France (in French)
| Apr 4 | Out of a Closet:
The Early Years of The Computer [x] Museum ( [x] can be either null
or later "History" ) - by Gordon Bell - a history of one of the world's premier computer museums.
Linked from on-line-docs.html#Museums-Curators
| Apr 1 | Williams tube, Selectron, Radechon, Graphecon, Charactron from Tube Collector
| Feb 15 | yet another version how the Internet started ;-))
ALittleFun.html
| Feb 11 | added IBM 7090 documents from John van Gardner
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