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IBM
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Sunday, March 6, 2016
Hard disks were born in 1956
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Hard disks were created for the first time by IBM in 1956, half a century ago, at about the same time that I started to learn computer progr...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Who's the American presidential candidate called Watson?
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Click here to access a website that's designed to promote an American presidential candidate named Watson . You'll soon discove...
Friday, January 29, 2016
Place in North Sydney where I met up in 1957 with my first IBM computer
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Towards the end of 1957, after my second year of studies in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, my student friend Michael Ar...
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Enough cash to buy the USA
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When I was working with IBM Australia back in Sydney during the period 1957-1961, I remember being most impressed by an anecdote designed to...
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Moving into a troubled city
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Last Thursday evening, a fascinating TV program concerning the long and tumultuous career of the former French police chief Maurice Papon [...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Centenary of a computing giant
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These days, we hear a lot about the achievements of Apple. I'm unlikely to complain about that, of course, because I've always been ...
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