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8000 Plus Magazine Issue 17
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Final Exam Review History of Science 150
Final Exam Review History of Science 150 1. Format of the Exam 90 minutes, on canvas 12:25pm December 18. You are welcome to bring notes to the exam, so you could start by filling out this sheet with notes from lectures and the readings! Like the mid-term, the final exam will have two kinds of questions. 1) Multiple choice questions examining your knowledge of key concepts, terms, historical developments, and contexts 2) Short answer questions in which ask you to draw on things you’ve learned in the course (from lecture, readings, videos) to craft a short argument in a brief essay expressing your informed issue on a historical question 2. Sample Questions Multiple Choice: Mina Rees was involved in (and wrote about) which of the following computing projects? A) Silicon Valley start-ups in the dot-com period B) Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine C) Works Projects Administration Tables Project D) Federal funding for computing research after WWII Short Answer: (Your answers should be between 100-200 words, and keep to specifics (events, machines, developments, people) that demonstrate your knowledge of materials covered from the course) A) What are two historical factors important to the development of Silicon Valley’s technology industry after World War II? B) In what ways did the field of programming change (in terms of its status and workers) between World War II and the late 1960s? 3. Topics to Review: Below, is a list of ideas to review for the final exam, which covers material through the entire course. You should review in particular, lecture notes, O’Mara’s The Code and other course readings provided on Canvas. -
My Path Through the FSM and Beyond Lee Felsenstein 22 Feb
1 My Path Through the FSM and Beyond Lee Felsenstein 22 Feb. 2005 © 2005 by Lee Felsenstein – all rights reserved This essay is a response to several requests for information on my particular political/technical trajectory from the FSM to the personal computer. “How did your involvement in the FSM affect your thinking on technology?” is one question from a PhD researcher, others ask about the overlap between the counterculture and the personal computer movement. This is a part of a future, more comprehensive memoir. The Environment In 1963, when I entered the College of Engineering at Berkeley as a freshman, the world was a much different place from today, especially for an 18-year-old acolyte entering the priesthood of technology. Engineers and other technologists were almost universally participants in large commercial or military institutions (or both – the “military industrial complex” described by Eisenhower in his farewell address). You worked as a small cog within a massive structure, with paper, pencil and slide rule as your principal tools. Numerous file clerks, documentation clerks, secretaries and technicians provided supporting services. If you needed computer time you had to write a justification and then write your program on coding sheets, one letter or number to a square. Someone else keypunched the code and had the resulting deck of cards delivered to a remote computer. You got back a batch of printout over which you pored until you decided whether the results were correct or whether another cycle would necessary. The upshot was that in your vocation you disappeared into a vast technological machine which was visible to the general public through its products – the space program, pharmaceuticals, automobiles and aircraft. -
Personal Computing
Personal Computing Thomas J. Bergin ©Computer History Museum American University Recap: Context • By 1977, there was a fairly robust but fragmented hobbyist-oriented microcomputer industry: – Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) – Processor Technology – Cromemco – MicroStuf – Kentucky Fried Computers • Two things were needed for the personal computer revolution: 1) a way to store and retrieve data, and 2) a programming language in which to write applications. Homebrew Computer Club • March 5, 1975: the Amateur Computer Users Group (Lee Felsenstein, Bob Marsh, Steve Dompier, BobAlbrecht and 27 others) met in Gordon French’s garage, Menlo Park, CA • 3rd meeting drew several hundred people and was moved to the Coleman mansion • Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s auditorium – Steve Wozniak shows off his single board computer – Steve Jobs attends meetings Homebrew-ed • 21 companies formed: – Apcose Apple – Cromemco Morrow – North Star Osborne • West Coast Computer Faire • Byte magazine, September 1975 • Byte Shop Both: images.google.com And then there was Traf-O-Data • October 28, 1955: William H. Gates III born – father: attorney mother: schoolteacher • Lakeside School: Lakeside Programming Group – Mothers Club: access to time-shared system at GE – Students hired by local firm to debug software – First computer program: Tic-Tac-Toe (age 13) – Traf-O-Data to sell traffic mgt. software (age 16) • 1973, Bill Gates enrolls at Harvard in pre-law. • Paul Allen is in his second year. January 1975, Popular Electronics: Altair • Allen shows -
A History of the Personal Computer Index/11
A History of the Personal Computer 6100 CPU. See Intersil Index 6501 and 6502 microprocessor. See MOS Legend: Chap.#/Page# of Chap. 6502 BASIC. See Microsoft/Prog. Languages -- Numerals -- 7000 copier. See Xerox/Misc. 3 E-Z Pieces software, 13/20 8000 microprocessors. See 3-Plus-1 software. See Intel/Microprocessors Commodore 8010 “Star” Information 3Com Corporation, 12/15, System. See Xerox/Comp. 12/27, 16/17, 17/18, 17/20 8080 and 8086 BASIC. See 3M company, 17/5, 17/22 Microsoft/Prog. Languages 3P+S board. See Processor 8514/A standard, 20/6 Technology 9700 laser printing system. 4K BASIC. See Microsoft/Prog. See Xerox/Misc. Languages 16032 and 32032 micro/p. See 4th Dimension. See ACI National Semiconductor 8/16 magazine, 18/5 65802 and 65816 micro/p. See 8/16-Central, 18/5 Western Design Center 8K BASIC. See Microsoft/Prog. 68000 series of micro/p. See Languages Motorola 20SC hard drive. See Apple 80000 series of micro/p. See Computer/Accessories Intel/Microprocessors 64 computer. See Commodore 88000 micro/p. See Motorola 80 Microcomputing magazine, 18/4 --A-- 80-103A modem. See Hayes A Programming lang. See APL 86-DOS. See Seattle Computer A+ magazine, 18/5 128EX/2 computer. See Video A.P.P.L.E. (Apple Pugetsound Technology Program Library Exchange) 386i personal computer. See user group, 18/4, 19/17 Sun Microsystems Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine, 432 microprocessor. See 18/4 Intel/Microprocessors A2-Central newsletter, 18/5 603/4 Electronic Multiplier. Abacus magazine, 18/8 See IBM/Computer (mainframe) ABC (Atanasoff-Berry 660 computer. -
COMMUNITY MEMORY Wants to Change That
Mass communications media tell everybody what a few people have to Community say, and don't give you a chance to talk back, much less talk to each other. Memory COMMUNITY MEMORY wants to change that. We are placing public computer terminals through which • Read and Add Messages people can freely share information • Make a connection unmediated by censors. • Share your ideas Community Memory allows people with no previous computer experience to enter messages, find messages entered by others, and enter responses to what they see. Messages are cross-indexed to related subjects to help people make connections. Community Memory helps people get in touch with one another. You can use it to find housing, childcare, or people to play Softball with. It is also a forum for expressing your views on subjects ranging from local politics to science fiction. The Community Memory Project is a non-profit corporation interested in the social impacts of computer technology. We have been in existence since 1976, and have been operating a small prototype of Community Memory in Berkeley with five terminals since 1984. recyling centers! The Community Memory Project is happy to announce that we are expanding. We will be adding a number For more information or to subscribe to our of new terminals and new features to newsletter call (415) 841-1114 or write us at: the existing system. We welcome your ideas concerning this expansion. How The Community Memory Project could the system best meet your 2617 San Pablo Ave. needs? What are the best locations for Berkeley, CA 94702 terminals in your community? WHAT IS COMMUNITY MEMORY? This computer terminal is part of the COMMUNITY MEMORY system. -
Joseph Deleon
Social Media at the Margins: Crafting Community Media Before the Web by Joseph Richard DeLeon A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Film, Television, and Media) in the University of Michigan 2021 Doctoral Committee: Associate Professor Daniel Herbert, Co-Chair Associate Professor Sheila Murphy, Co-Chair Assistant Professor Sarah Murray Professor Lisa Nakamura Joseph Richard DeLeon [email protected] ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1662-9033 © Joseph Richard DeLeon 2021 Dedication This dissertation is dedicated to my parents, Carol DeLeon and Richard DeLeon. ii Acknowledgements This dissertation is the result of the community and support that shaped my doctoral education in so many important and life-changing ways. I have had the incomparable joy to benefit from great mentors who have fostered my intellectual growth from my first steps on campus all the way to my dissertation defense. To my co-chairs, Dan Herbert and Sheila Murphy, thank you for guiding me through this project and for helping me to harness the strengths of my research, my perspective, and my voice. Thank you to Dan, who has always offered a helpful listening ear and shared a wealth of advice from choosing seminars, to networking, publishing, and finishing a dissertation. Thank you to Sheila for your constant support and encouragement of my writing, my teaching, and my curiosity. I thank Sheila for the many conversations that spurred my writing in new and fruitful directions and that made me feel valued as a scholar and as an individual. I am especially grateful for Sheila’s advice for my research trips to Silicon Valley and for encouraging me to witness Fry’s Electronics firsthand. -
NEWSLETTER Homebrew Computer Club
NEWSLETTER y. .< ,/*, " yiiX w i Homebrew Computer Club V ol. 3/Issue 1, January 18, 1978 Surveyby Robert Reiling It was survey tim e again at the Homebrew Computer Club meeting January 4, 1978. Attendance was 175 people with CPU TYPE NUMBER SYSTEMS OPERATING about 10 percent of the individuals attending for the first time. The group decided a survey should betaken and forthwith 8080 68 Lee Felsenstein, club meeting moderator, went into action. 8008 4 This list is the result. 6800 12 6502 28 Seventeen people reported they had no operating system. F8 5 Z80 31 A similar survey conducted one year ago with 240 people LSI II 5 attending the meeting revealed 182 systems in operation. 1802 5 9900 2 Although not part of the survey results the development of 6100 2 users groups has been noted during 1977. At the beginning of SC/MP 2 the year the 6800 group was holding regular meetings. At the PACE 1 end of 1977 the groups include not only the 6800 but the F8 8085 1 Users, North Star Users Group, SOL Users Society, and PET OTHERS 6 Users. The IEEE has set up a standards group to sort out the T O T A L 172 various hardware and software standards. It would seem that there is something for everybody in the micro computer world.» Second West Coast Homebrew Computer Club Computer Faireby Robert Reiling 1978 Meeting Schedule Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium D on't forget the Faire to be held in San Jose March 3-5, 1978. -
商標註冊trade Marks Registered
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Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet Author(S): Roy Rosenzweig Source: the American Historical Review, Vol
Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet Author(s): Roy Rosenzweig Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 103, No. 5, (Dec., 1998), pp. 1530-1552 Published by: American Historical Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2649970 Accessed: 31/07/2008 15:02 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=aha. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. http://www.jstor.org Review Essay Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet ROY ROSENZWEIG TAKE A LOOK AT THE STANDARD TEXTBOOKS on post-World War II America. -
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The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY Reading, MA Copyright © 1993 by Howard Rheingold "When you think of a title for a book, you are forced to think of something short and evocative, like, well, 'The Virtual Community,' even though a more accurate title might be: 'People who use computers to communicate, form friendships that sometimes form the basis of communities, but you have to be careful to not mistake the tool for the task and think that just writing words on a screen is the same thing as real community.'" – HLR We know the rules of community; we know the healing effect of community in terms of individual lives. If we could somehow find a way across the bridge of our knowledge, would not these same rules have a healing effect upon our world? We human beings have often been referred to as social animals. But we are not yet community creatures. We are impelled to relate with each other for our survival. But we do not yet relate with the inclusivity, realism, self-awareness, vulnerability, commitment, openness, freedom, equality, and love of genuine community. It is clearly no longer enough to be simply social animals, babbling together at cocktail parties and brawling with each other in business and over boundaries. It is our task--our essential, central, crucial task--to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. It is the only way that human evolution will be able to proceed. M. Scott Peck The Different Drum: Community-Making