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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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
#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
#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
Are those 8-bit characters, or variable-sized Unicode Tweet characters? Or maybe SIXBIT characters?
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*
I thought those were decimal? ...I guess their characters were six bits
Yeah, I think you're right. I understand the numbers were decimal "strings" of possibly unlimited length.
I've never programmed one, but that's what I've read about them
I think that's what's challenging talking about old computers – they are often transitional, many different ideas at the same time.
What's challenging to me is that almost all my knowledge about them is hearsay (or occasionally emulation, still not the same)
The same team that restored two of the 1401s for the CHM.
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