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Showing posts with label IBM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IBM. Show all posts
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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William Skyvington
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After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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