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A Personal History of APL (1982) - Michael S. Montalbano

Voice Modems

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What Really Happened in Y2K?

The world’s most complex machine

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

Lectures on history of programming languages

Recovering a Lost Document: Habitat Anecdotes (1988)

Blackholing My Email

IrDA

Babylon and the Square Root of 2 (2011)

Annotated source code for the Elite Demonstration Disc

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories

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How Gran Turismo's Creator Snuck a Sim Into a Mario Kart Rival to Persuade Sony Execs

The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

Running the first program

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Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930

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The Second Wave of the API-first Economy

telecheck and tyms past

LotusNotes

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