Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + the New Technoculture
Not since The Female Eunuch has there been a book so radical in its scope, so persuasive in its detail, so exhilarating in its polemical energy. Beginning with Ada Lovelace and her unheralded contributions to Charles Babbage and his development of the Difference Engine, Sadie Plant traces the critical contributions women have made to the progress of computing.
From the CBI Archives.
UCLA CS Prof Leonard Kleinrock, successfully transmitted the first message over ARPANET from UCLA to Stanford. The group intended to transmit the word “LOGIN,” but the system crashed just after they had sent the first two letters.
The IBM 5100, one of the first portable computers, combined a typewriter-like electronic keyboard, a 10-keypad for data entry, a 1024-character display, a processing unit with up to 64K positions of main storage, and a tape cartridge for storing data. (1975).
Nancy Gradwell, left, and Bradley Johnson, 8th graders at Philadelphia's Wagner Jr High, listen intently as Mrs, Phyllis Eggleston,
mathematics teacher, explains how to use an IBM 1050 terminal to help solve homework problems, 1966.
CBI Image of the Day: Assembly of the Control Data Corporation series 3000, working with the wiring, and wiring harnesses, at the McGill Building manufacturing building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1962.
Personal server, look, you can download the server software there!
Shared install, so you can do LAN games with your friends for free.
Now:
LAN? Na mate, internet only, and you have to use our own servers, btw they will shutdown next year for the next release. Don't forget to have a fiber optic connection or you will lag.
CBI Image of the Day: A computer technician standing next to a large memory disk, which is so highly polished that her image is prominently reflected, ca. 1971.
CBI Image o' Day. 1962. Large console of Army's BRLESC (Ballistic Research Labs Electronic Scientific Computer), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, @ controls mathematical technicians Gail I. Beck Taylor & Lloyd W. Campbell.
The fastest computer 'til Control Data Corp. 6600 in 1964, which was widely regarded as the start of supercomputing
CBI Image of the day: Two RESISTORS (Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science Technology or Research Studies), one of the first computer clubs for science-minded students between the ages of 10 & 17, are shown working in their 'computer barn'
NJ ca. late 1960s.