Domesticating the Computer with Steve Lewis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- A tour of various computer systems across several decades, with a focus on the 1970s. This talk is a tribute to the progress that brought us the Information Age and is an overview of several contenders as "the first personal computer."
For the slide deck (in both PDF and PowerPoint format), with also extended slide notes past the end that couldn't be covered in the time permitted:
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For the Domesticating the Computer 1970s poster (use the "version2" branch):
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For information on the Robert Weiss large-scale computing history poster:
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Great talk! One important detail is that the Linc from Lincoln Labs and the Linc-8 from DEC are two different releases of the same computer. The first one was built by people receiving grants from NIH who participated in workshops to learn about the machine and then took the resulting product back to their laboratories. The idea was that someone who built a machine could then keep it running. These machines were built using DEC Modules, which was what the company started out with before getting into computers. The second machine was a commercial product from DEC and came out a few years later. Even later DEC did the PDP-12 which could run in either Linc or in PDP-8 mode (both designs had some things in common, which made this possible).
No mention of the Honeywell 316 Kitchen Computer?
Nope, but near the very end is a tribute to the ECHO IV from 1966 - a kind of early home automation computer.
Prototype of ABC was done in 1939.
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At 25:09, he said "They didn't use the word first in here," but the plaque he pointed to does use the word first. The first sentence on it calls the Datapoint 2200 "the first desktop personal computer."
Yep, I meant to add "...in the title" (where I was pointing) and clarify they hid the "first" claim in the description. I had changed that slide from the original and it tripped me up, my apologies. It's an important point, since I was curious on the overall communities' thoughts on this somewhat recent IEEE declaration.