History of technology
History of digital storage
It isn’t often that you have an area where there are changes that amount to many orders of magnitude. My first personal desktop had a 20 MB hard drive. My present desktop has multiple drives and several are 2 TB. So my main drive has 100,000 times the storage capacity that my first one had. [...]
Déjà vu all over again in the PC world
The debate about the death of the PC still rages. One thing that amuses me about all this discussion is how long it has been going on. I wrote a post on this subject (Is the PC dead?) nearly seven years ago. Back in 2006, I observed: Whatever hardware is involved, one thing that I [...]
What’s coming in future technology – predictions plus CES
Are you curious about what the technology professionals are predicting for the coming year? Here is what some experts see future technology bringing (or not bringing): 2013: Talk Gets Cheaper, TV Gets SmarterAt AllThingsD, Walt Mossberg gives his predictions for consumer electronics in 2013 13 Technologies You Won’t See in 2013 At Gizmodo, Avram Piltch [...]
Monday links
45,000 PCWorld readers name the brands they love (and love to hate)2012 reader satisfaction survey from PCWorld No Sales Pop for a New Version of WindowsIt used to be that a new version of the Windows operating system was enough to get people excited about buying a new computer, giving sales a nice pop.Not this [...]
Bell Labs- a lost treasure
America used to have industrial research labs that made very large contributions to technology and to the general welfare. Premier among these scientific jewels was AT&T’s Bell Labs, where an astonishing number of the basic discoveries that created this modern world were made. The old AT&T (not to be confused with the present company that [...]
Newfangled inventions
Source: The New Yorker
Some computer history
Maybe only someone like me, who wrote computer code first in binary, then in assembly, and finally in Fortran, will be interested in this little article about the history of computer code but I couldn’t resist blogging it. It brought back memories of my early days using computers. Here’s an excerpt from the article: The [...]
