@reginagrogan From my observations it seems to be about the men’s entitlement. Some really can’t understand why they are not free to comment as they see fit. Why would the woman even be there if not for his amusement?
I have called out men like this and I was met with hostility and exclusion in the workplace. These were married men with children. It’s quite sickening.
It’s almost as if the patriarchy is a major problem.
1973 #Ethernet as one of the defining information technologies in modern communication was developed at #PARC by Chuck Thackers for #Alto#Computer s. What Bob Metcalf, Butler Lampson, and Dave Boggs built for the #ARPAnet is connecting us all today— via the #Internet, & @fediverse.
You are conflating layer 1 technologies (shielded or unshielded twisted pair, CAT3 through CAT7) with layer 2 technologies (Ethernet).
Layer one is the physical media itself. Alternatively some modern-day L1s are MoCA, Powerline, WiFi, fiber, and of course, 1000BaseT, whose standard specifies CAT5e or higher STP.
Layer two is how those bits get sent in that media. Ethernet is, by and far, the most familiar L2.
And then layer three is where we get to networking and start talking about IP addresses (IP being the most familiar L3).
The IBM EA-6B, used for the Navy's EA-6B Prowler, an electronic warfare aircraft. This marked the first time a micro-programmed logic control, implemented with read-only storage, was used in aerospace applications, ca 1960s.
It's an earlier model of the "space shuttle computer". Seems like it started off as a VERY stripped-down version of a System/360, and then grew as technology allowed. (Like a more extreme version of the Microvax I -> later microvaxen case.)
The name is obviously a play on "S/360" - but in radians instead of degrees. (And spherical instead of 2d?)
In keeping with our back-to-school theme this week, here we have an 8th-grade classroom at St. Veronica's school with 40 students seated at tables or desks, each equipped with a Burroughs calculating machine as a math tool, 1955.
Two of the Women Who Programmed the ENIAC, Penn, 1946.
Iconic photograph of Betty Jean Jennings (left) at edge of photo inserts a deck of cards containing initial data on which the ENIAC will operate, while Frances Bilas (right) removes a set of cards representing the result of the proceeding computation.
@JustCodeCulture@histodons Are there any photos from later decades with women #SysAdmin at university computing facilities? Particularly before the mid-80s gender reorientation in #ComputerScience recruiting strategies.
CBI Image of the Day (from the vast CBI Historical Archives). Jean Hall and ADVIDAC
CBI Image of the day: Jean Hall at the Argonne Version of the Institute's Digital Automatic Computer (AVIDAC) console, showing the Ferranti photoelectric paper tape reader and the punch output bin, ca mid 1950s.
CBI Image of the Day. It is 1984 & the Apple MacIntosh quickly stood out for its relative, small form factor, GUI, and ease of use--garnering substantial adoption in businesses, like this NYC office, schools, and homes.
The cityscape and office setting stand in contrast to the computer lib myth (more than a little irony to revolution myths presented in ultra-expensive Superbowl ads)
"Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it is stressed that artificial algorithms attempt to mimic only the conscious function of parts of the cerebral cortex, ignoring the fact that, not only every conscious experience is preceded by an unconscious process but also that the passage from the unconscious to consciousness is accompanied by loss of information."
The Atari 1200XL was a 8bit HomeComputer running a mos 6502 Processor at 1.79 MHz. When this beautiful machine was launched in 1983 with 64Kb RAM the price was under thousand dollars, but... http://youtu.be/watch?v=JyA5tA5mmYY
$omehow the C64 was much more popular even when specs been almost the same. The difference in BASIC language was less significant for the success. Most likely that competition was won by Commodore because Jack Tramiel took the advice of his grandfather so serious. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22449/Atari-1200XL/
Please share: In DC, on Fri, Oct. 20 @9am (& later airing on CSPAN) Princeton's Matt Jones VT's Janet Abbate, Columbia's Matt Connelly, & I are doing a public/free https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] AHA Congressional Briefing on how AI history informs AI risks.
Iconic image of Kay Mauchly (AKA: Kathleen Rita McNulty Mauchly Antonelli), one of the original programmers on the ENIAC during WWII, with husband John Mauchly, ENIAC co-inventor, and Arthur Draper, as they look over the UNIVAC LARC in 1960.