The speed at which we do things

Chuckles:

This might be an oblique reference to the speed at which I am getting the old site back up but knowing the sweetness and light of Chuckles’s nature, this seems a fanciful idea.

Priorities

Via Chuckles:

Bill Krauser

… and the birth of modern computing:

Ethernet at the time was very kludgy. It was this big, thick cable that at the time you had to screw a tap into, and then you had another cable that connected to a card that you connected to your computer. The biggest drawback was that and it was about $3,000. Who is going to spend $3,000 to connect a $3,000 computer? How is that to going to work? We knew we needed to get on to a VLSI circuit, a highly dense semi-conductor to quickly bring the cost down, and that was what we ultimately did. So that was one part.

More here …

Bletchley – when those who come after have none of the wartime spirit

This via Chuckles. The headline had it:

Elderly Bletchley Park volunteer sacked for showing Colossus exhibit to visitors

And:

Now the ongoing war between Bletchley Park and the National Museum of Computing has claimed its first casualties. Tony Carroll, an elderly volunteer at Bletchley Park, was fired after daring to …

There are people out there who understand this far more than I and they might even have been to the exhibition. Comments, usually throws more light on things but in this case, confuses them more in my mind:

Let’s underline it yet again [cement flood farce]

Chuckles:

A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages

This via Chuckles:

Fortunately for computer science the supply of curly braces and angle brackets remains high.