computers

Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC for short) may not be a household name. Many of their innovations were licensed or sold and brought to market by other companies. However, their fingerprints are all over the tech we use to work, play, and communicate in the 21st century. Some examples...

Windows 7 is now in its final year of what Microsoft calls "extended support". This means that after January 14, 2020, there will be no more patches or updates of any kind, including security, for Windows 7. Microsoft Windows 7 extended support will end in one year If you are currently using...

Came across this video of a restored 1959 IBM 1401 computer trying to run a program written in Fortran (one of the first computer languages). Your average smart phone is significantly more powerful than all the 1401s ever built put together but it's interesting to see where we have come from...

Jerry Pournelle has passed away. I imagine most folks around here aren't familiar with the man, but I came across him in two of the worlds in which he operated. I read some of his science fiction, esp. his collaborations with his friend and colleague Larry Niven, and I was a regular reader of...