Vacuum Tubes to Intergrated Circuits

 Minimizing computers for maximum use. 


Nathan Dumlao


The MIT brought us it's a small World Wide Web in the form of Time Shares. #Computer #TimeShare #TimeMagazine #Machine-of-the-Year.


I loved reading the information about ASCII and Morris Code. Awesome. I knew that computers used binary code but never really looked into how the code formed letters and words. Very cool. Wow, one bit is equal to one binary. 

The info about the processor was interesting as well as the part about the reason for a graphics card is to lighten the load one the CPU

Reading about the GUI reminded me of a computer class I took in school. I remember the teacher asking a boy in class to add a picture to the computer. I remember asking how he planned on doing that and he said scanning it. Never heard of one of those before I, that was in 1993.

I can't believe the book asked "Do I remember VCRs?" Now I know why BlueRay's were never a big thing. Why would the consumer care about all that extra space when they could get it on a regular CD cheaper. 

Floppies and not so floppy floppies, loved those little 3.5s.



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