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LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴
@littlealex@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

computer history

Today in 1947 Grace Hopper found the first computer bug.

In many reports the date is 9th of September 1947. There are some theories about this discrepancy. One theory is they actually found the bug on 7th of September but realized it's importance two days later and wrote it down in the log. Another theory is the bug was presented in a meeting two days later as the cause of the problem and became known to a wider group of people.
It's also possible the date in her notebook was a simple mistake and the 9th is the real and official date.

Anyways, she found it!

#computerhistory
LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴
@littlealex@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

computer history

Today in 1947 Grace Hopper found the first computer bug.

In many reports the date is 9th of September 1947. There are some theories about this discrepancy. One theory is they actually found the bug on 7th of September but realized it's importance two days later and wrote it down in the log. Another theory is the bug was presented in a meeting two days later as the cause of the problem and became known to a wider group of people.
It's also possible the date in her notebook was a simple mistake and the 9th is the real and official date.

Anyways, she found it!

#computerhistory
Soh Kam Yung
@sohkamyung@mstdn.io  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Amazing. A map showing every page of BYTE magazine.

"This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of final edition (bottom right)."

https://byte.tsundoku.io/

#Computers#Magazines#Byte#RetroComputing#ComputerHistory

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Soh Kam Yung
@sohkamyung@mstdn.io  ·  activity timestamp last month

"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/

#Computers#Thinkpad#IBM#Lenovo#Keyboards#ComputerHistory
Soh Kam Yung
@sohkamyung@mstdn.io  ·  activity timestamp last month

"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/

#Computers#Thinkpad#IBM#Lenovo#Keyboards#ComputerHistory
LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴
@littlealex@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp last month

Today 38 years ago a small computer manufacturer in UK launched their new product. The RISC machine became the Acorn Risc Machine and later Advanced Risc Machine -> ARM

It is the most used CPU ever. Intel? Never heard of it...

#acorn #AcornComputers#ARM#CPU #retrocomputing #computerhistory
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@itnewsbot@schleuss.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Remembering Chiptunes, the Demoscene and the Illegal Music of Keygens - We loved keygens back in the day. Our lawyers advise us to clarify that that’s all... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/20/remembering-chiptunes-the-demoscene-and-the-illegal-music-of-keygens/ #computerhistory #musicalhacks #chiptunes #demoscene #keygen