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Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)(computerhistory.org)

51 points by mooreds 23 days ago | 30 comments

Computer History Museum exhibit page showing Thomas Watson Jr.'s August 1963 IBM memo about the Control Data CDC 6600 supercomputer.

Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar(computerhistory.org)

96 points by andrewstuart 4 months ago | 20 comments

The APL programming language source code (2012)(computerhistory.org)

69 points by tosh 6 months ago | 24 comments

Generative Music with the Muse(computerhistory.org)

11 points by andsoitis 9 months ago | 0 comments

Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection(computerhistory.org)

175 points by ChrisArchitect 9 months ago | 29 comments

Pixar's True Story(computerhistory.org)

80 points by kristianp 9 months ago | 19 comments

Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)(computerhistory.org)

416 points by tosh 10 months ago | 127 comments

Computer History Museum blog post releasing and discussing the source code of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 for Macintosh from 1990.

A new oral history interview with Ken Thompson(computerhistory.org)

67 points by oldnetguy 1 year ago | 5 comments

The Great Chatbot Debate(computerhistory.org)

11 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 4 comments

Harold Cohen and Aaron – A 40-Year Collaboration (2016)(computerhistory.org)

9 points by smusamashah 1 year ago | 0 comments

Xerox Alto Source Code (2014)(computerhistory.org)

102 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 21 comments

Donald Bitzer has died(computerhistory.org)

199 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 21 comments

Thomas E. Kurtz has died(computerhistory.org)

556 points by 1986 1 year ago | 137 comments

Computer History Museum blog post in memoriam of Thomas E. Kurtz (1928–2024), co-creator of the BASIC programming language at Dartmouth.

Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)(computerhistory.org)

67 points by wmlive 1 year ago | 31 comments

Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)(computerhistory.org)

596 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 212 comments

Computer History Museum blog post presenting the released source code of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 for the Macintosh, with background on its creation.

IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design(computerhistory.org)

57 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 2 comments

System/360 – CHM Revolution(computerhistory.org)

63 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 23 comments

"The incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration"(computerhistory.org)

29 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 6 comments

MacPaint and QuickDraw source code (1984)(computerhistory.org)

75 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 20 comments

1901: Semiconductor rectifiers patented as “cat's whisker” detectors(computerhistory.org)

45 points by indus 3 years ago | 31 comments

Transplanting the Mac’s Central Processor: Gary Davidian’s 68000 Emulator (2020)(computerhistory.org)

33 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 5 comments