The changing face of computers on screen
A look at the depiction of computer hardware and peripherals in sci-fi movies over time.
Tags: computer
IBM Sage Computer Ad, 1960 - YouTube
A 1960 advertisement for IBM’s SAGE system …WOPR by another name.
To be ready for the worst so that the worst will never happen…
The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems
Wallow in nerd nostalgia and experience the Proustian rush of rebooting old operating systems.
Access Main Computer File
Well, there goes my afternoon: here’s an endless supply of computer interfaces from films.
CS404
This looks like an excellent event: learn about programming without being a programmer.
A Democracy of Netbooks
The bottom-up appeal of netbooks in all their cheap, crappy glory.
bab-instr
Instruction manual to operate and maintain Charles Babbage's 2nd Difference Engine built by Barrie Holloway and Reg Crick, June 1991 for the Science Museum, London SW7 2DD.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
The entire text of this seminal work is online in HTML, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Ethan Hein | Player1Ready
Judging from the research information collected on Delicious, Flickr and Last.fm, this book proposal—tying together informatics, music and games—could blossom into a great read.
The Long Now Foundation - Essays
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine.
LEGO Technic Difference Engine
Babbage + Lego