A few new reasons I am in love with Computer History Museum (@ComputerHistory):
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Replying to @mwichary @ComputerHistory
#1,724: I randomly met Paul Laughton, who wrote the first programming language I learned: Atari BASIC!
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Replying to @mwichary
Here he is with a “USB cable from 1960.” I got to shake his hand afterwards, which was wonderful. Who knows where I’d be without his BASIC.pic.twitter.com/TsLEVRmjLk
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Replying to @mwichary
#1,725: I punched a card with my name on an old manual punch, and then on a newer one – and they matched!pic.twitter.com/8XkTGsZtx4
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Replying to @mwichary
#1,726: I got a chance to hold an old core memory, hand-made, with a capacity of 140 characters… or, a physical tweet.pic.twitter.com/3e4iXM8tRF
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Are those 8-bit characters, or variable-sized Unicode Tweet characters? Or maybe SIXBIT characters?
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SIXBIT MOST LIKELY, GIVEN THIS WAS IN A ROOM WITH AN IBM 1401. *read imagining a terrifying noise of a chain printer in the background*
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