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When I took early retirement from IBM Research, I begged Fran Allen to protect the original tapes of interviews with these fundamental figures of computer science. She didn't and they were all destroyed when the video lab was disbanded. These copies I kept are the only surviving raw source footage.
1 posted on 01/21/2018 12:08:06 PM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

I was in a similar situation with Amiga. Commodore had hours and hours of research and people who are no longer with us.

One such person who was charged not only with media but with prototype hardware passed away. His estate threw everything out.


2 posted on 01/21/2018 12:20:57 PM PST by Celerity
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RISC was a true breakthrough!

I code for micro-controllers that have a very tiny instruction set.

Computer History Museum
https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory


4 posted on 01/21/2018 1:11:48 PM PST by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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Thank you so very much for the John Cocke videos!

My specialty has always been pattern recognition, I seem to have a knack for it.

I’d be very interested in your personal history in compsci.

Your youtube channel has interesting videos :-)


5 posted on 01/21/2018 1:22:08 PM PST by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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You might enjoy this short computer animation clip, from my youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTO5mFIuPs


6 posted on 01/21/2018 1:44:07 PM PST by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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