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To connect to the Mainframe just dial 868-HACK
Photo of acoustic coupler modem from Wikipedia Photo of acoustic coupler modem in use from https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/couplers.html
November 2, 2026 at 10:10 PM
ithistory.org
George Boole was born today in 1815 in Lincoln, England. Self-taught, he turned logic into algebra, a system of true and false that became the ones and zeroes of every digital circuit. He would have turned 211 today.

ithistory.org/honoree/geor...

#ComputingHistory #ITHistory
Engraved portrait of George Boole in a dark coat and cravat. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
November 2, 2026 at 1:15 PM
chrispirillo.bsky.social
Louis Pouzin Named the Shell, Then Colleagues Built It From His Flowchart After He Left

lockergnome.com/multics-shell-pouzin-fl…

#multics #shell #ComputingHistory #tech
Constructivism of Chris Pirillo: he waves goodbye as he walks away out of frame-right
November 3, 2026 at 7:20 AM
chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Louis Pouzin Named the Shell, Then Colleagues Built It From His Flowchart After He Left

https://lockergnome.com/multics-shell-pouzin-flowchart-after-departure/

#multics #shell #computinghistory #tech
Constructivism of Chris Pirillo: he waves goodbye as he walks away out of frame-right
November 3, 2026 at 7:20 AM
acm.org
#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1969, the first message was sent over what would become the Internet. UCLA student Charley Kline sent the message, “LO” to Bill Duvall at the Stanford Research Institute via ARPANET. For more: buff.ly/V8tN8M5
October 29, 2026 at 4:06 PM
chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Sun's First Workstation, SGI's First Workstation and Cisco's First Router All Started From One Stanford 68000 Board

https://lockergnome.com/stanford-sun-board-bechtolsheim-sun-sgi-cisco-first-products/

#computinghistory #sunmicrosystems #cisco #retro
Chris, drawn as a white-on-blue blueprint, holds up a single circuit board from which three branching paths lead to a workstation, a second workstation and a network router
October 29, 2026 at 10:20 AM
vintage.computer
💻 Wow, That's Fascinating! Did you know your iPhone has roots in Steve Jobs' NeXT computers? NeXT's workstations struggled commercially, but their operating system became the foundation for macOS and eventually iOS after Apple acquired NeXT in 1997! 🍎 #NeXT #ComputingHistory
**Wow That’s Fascinating** **NeXT Computers Laid the Groundwork for macOS & iOS** Steve Jobs’ company NeXT built advanced workstations that flopped commercially but inspired future tech. When Apple bought NeXT in 1997, its OS became the foundation of modern macOS, iOS, and everything in your iPhone today. **Visual Description:** The image features a vintage computer-inspired design with white monospaced text on a dark blue background, surrounded by a thick, rounded light gray border. At the top, the heading "Wow That’s Fascinating" appears in large, bold white lettering. Below a thin white decorative line, the underlined title "NeXT Computers Laid the Groundwork for macOS & iOS" spans three lines. An explanatory paragraph appears beneath the title, describing Steve Jobs' NeXT computers and their influence on Apple's modern operating systems. At the bottom, a white decorative line separates the main content from the footer, which features a microchip icon, a wireframe globe, and the website "vintage.computer".
November 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
chrispirillo.bsky.social
Sun's First Workstation, SGI's First Workstation and Cisco's First Router All Started From One Stanford 68000 Board

lockergnome.com/stanford-sun-board-bech…

#ComputingHistory #SunMicrosystems #cisco #retro
Chris, drawn as a white-on-blue blueprint, holds up a single circuit board from which three branching paths lead to a workstation, a second workstation and a network router
October 29, 2026 at 6:40 AM
vintage.computer
💻 Born November 2, 1815, George Boole revolutionized mathematics with Boolean algebra and symbolic logic. His work laid the foundation for the binary logic that powers modern computers. Over 200 years later, his legacy lives on! 🖥️ #ComputingHistory #BooleanLogic
Milestone Monday – November 2nd, 1815 On this day in 1815 English mathematician George Boole was born in Lincoln, England. He contributed to many different fields of mathematics, but introduced the concepts of symbolic logic and Boolean algebra. Boolean logic would become essential to computer programming. The image features a black-and-white engraved portrait of George Boole, wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and bow tie, looking toward the left. The background is a dark, star-filled sky. At the bottom is a stylized orange and yellow rising sun above a curved black horizon, with "vintage.computer" written in yellow. Image credit: Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Engraving-George-Boole.webp
November 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
pablomurad.com
#ComputingHistory #RetroComputing #SmallWeb 3/3
October 25, 2026 at 7:17 AM
ithistory.org
What is your favorite fictional robot?

Long before anyone had a real one, readers and moviegoers had already met Robby the Robot, HAL 9000, R2-D2, and Data. Did yours shape what you expected real computers to be?

Tell us below.

#ComputingHistory #ITHistory #Robots
The Maschinenmensch, the metal robot “Maria” from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), standing on a lit platform in front of a tall chair, with a pentagram on the wall behind. Photo: Horst von Harbou, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
October 24, 2026 at 12:32 PM
jordanjmc.bsky.social
Servers and desktops no longer require fundamentally different architectures.

As microprocessors improved and standards developed, commodity hardware became capable of workloads once reserved for specialized systems.

excalibursheath.com/article/2026...

#ComputingHistory #Servers
Commodity Hardware Transformation
Explore how the IBM PC and compatible computers helped establish commodity hardware, how standardized components transformed computer manufacturing and upgra...
excalibursheath.com
October 23, 2026 at 2:48 AM
diskette.ch
Computerarchäologie heute (Do.) im Diskette Hangout, 18-22 Uhr! 👾

Vom Flohmi habe ich die Systemfestplatte eines PERQ2 T2 Computers von 1986. Können wir etwas über seine Geschichte rausfinden?

diskette.ch/hangout

#vintagecomputing #computinghistory #dataarchaeology #diskette #schaffhausen
October 22, 2026 at 12:36 PM
diskette.ch
Computer archaeology at Diskette Hangout today (Thursday), 6 pm to 10 pm! 👾

I found the system drive of a 1986 PERQ2-T2 computer at a flea market. Can we figure out its history?

diskette.ch/hangout

#vintagecomputing #computinghistory #dataarchaeology #diskette #schaffhausen
October 22, 2026 at 12:34 PM
hobbyspeculators.bsky.social
Bidding over $20,000 on the first video game ever made. Watching history get loaded via punch tape in university labs makes modern game distribution feel like magic. It is wild to think how far we have come from feeding tapes into machines. #retrogaming #computinghistory
October 21, 2026 at 3:33 AM
ithistory.org
Three ITHS board members: Bob Frankston, co-creator of VisiCalc, with Secretary and Treasurer Brandon Vogel and Chair @aaronsylvan.com, talking through topics for an upcoming ITHS panel discussion that Bob will lead. More on that soon.

#VisiCalc #ComputingHistory
Selfie of Aaron Sylvan, Bob Frankston, and Brandon Vogel, left to right, in Bob's office in Newton, Massachusetts. Aaron wears a navy polo, Bob a denim shirt, and Brandon a brown quarter-zip sweater. Behind them, workbench shelves are crowded with hubs and routers, 3D printing gear, a label maker, bins of loose components, tangles of cable, and a monitor showing a Linux desktop.
October 18, 2026 at 12:15 PM
acm.org
Today in #ComputingHistory, we celebrate #AdaLovelaceDay, an international celebration of women in STEM. Ada Lovelace Day was established in 2009 to highlight the many contributions of women in STEM and inspire future generations to pursue careers in these fields.
#OTD buff.ly/V8tN8M5
October 13, 2026 at 6:23 PM
smartermsp.bsky.social
Long before AI assistants and modern PCs, a television special imagined how computers would change everyday life. This #TechTimeWarp looks back at a fascinating prediction of the digital future. #Technology #ComputingHistory https://bit.ly/4h8nSiW
Tech Time Warp: There she is... Miss computer-predicted America
A look back at how a university professor used data analytics and an early computer model to predict Miss America winners, decades before modern AI and predictive algorithms became mainstream.
bit.ly
October 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
ithistory.org
ITHS Chair @aaronsylvan.com and board member David Arscott met with Dag Spicer, senior curator at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, for a long conversation about the oral histories of computing. We forgot to get a photo with Dag, so here's the building...

#ComputingHistory #OralHistory
Exterior of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, with its name a large red outdoor sign on the lawn, in front of the facade, on a clear sunny day.
October 13, 2026 at 12:15 PM
theoff-keybard.bsky.social
⚙️ Stop-Motion Accuracy: The October patent added a stop-motion device that kept mechanical gears from overshooting during rapid calculations.

👇 Read more on The Bard's Desk:

theoffkeybard.com/bards-desk/h...

#TechHistory #ThisDayInHistory #Comptometer #ComputingHistory #TheOffKeyBard #BardsDesk
This Day in History — The Comptometer Patent
On October 11, 1887, Dorr Felt won a patent improving the Comptometer, the key-driven calculator he first built from a macaroni box and skewers.
theoffkeybard.com
October 11, 2026 at 2:48 PM
bithistory.bsky.social
Farewell to computing pioneer Margaret Hamilton, whose groundbreaking software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon and shaped modern software engineering. A remarkable legacy. 🚀

#MargaretHamilton #Apollo11 #ComputingHistory #NASA

news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
news.mit.edu
October 8, 2026 at 10:22 AM
jordanjmc.bsky.social
Why are Debian, Slackware, Red Hat, SUSE, Gentoo, and Arch so different when they all use Linux?

The answer lies in how each distribution assembles and maintains an operating system around a shared kernel.

The Linux Family:
excalibursheath.com/article/2026...

#Linux #ComputingHistory
The Linux Family
Explore how Linux grew from a kernel for the 386 into a family of operating systems, how distributions make different decisions about the kernel and surround...
excalibursheath.com
October 8, 2026 at 4:30 AM
hnbot.gsuscs.xyz
Programming the ENIAC(2011)

https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/eniac.html
October 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
smartermsp.bsky.social
Long before AI assistants and modern PCs, a television special imagined how computers would change everyday life. This #TechTimeWarp looks back at a fascinating prediction of the digital future. #Technology #ComputingHistory https://bit.ly/4h8nSiW
Tech Time Warp: There she is... Miss computer-predicted America
A look back at how a university professor used data analytics and an early computer model to predict Miss America winners, decades before modern AI and predictive algorithms became mainstream.
smartermsp.com
October 2, 2026 at 9:10 PM
ithistory.org
The patch panel is the iconic image of an analog computer: a board of wires you rewire for each problem. Bernd Ulmann, who builds and restores these machines, makes the case for leaving it behind, and shows the reconfigurable computer he built without one.
#AnalogComputing #ComputingHistory
September 29, 2026 at 12:46 PM