25 Jun
1998
25 Jun
'98
2:25 a.m.
GOD this is a long thread!
Well, considering the reason that I started collection
computers 12
years ago was so that people would have the chance to use >frontpanels,
paper
tape, punched cards etc in he future, I might do >that sometime.
Problem is it would take a lot of work, and I doubt if >anyone would buy
it.
-tony
Why not? The Soul of a New Machine, Insanely Great, and Hackers seemed
to do just fine, to name a few. I don't mean an encyclopedia, but a
bunch of stories about the design of stuff (i.e. a chapter on how
Multics was made, a chapter on how the Apple arose, a chapter on where
the ENIAC came from,etc.). It seems that people can only read things
like this if they are made about people rather than, "The idea began
slowly to take shape that instead of using a two-stage adder it would be
easier to use a shift register. This was to come up later when..."
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