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This Website is a working collection of items for a Kite Investigation Project: EDUC 521 Sponsored by RETA of New Mexico(Regional Educational Technology Assistance.)
This Website is a working collection of items for a Kite Investigation Project: EDUC 521 Sponsored by RETA of New Mexico(Regional Educational Technology Assistance.)
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The pioneering research of Paul Baran in the 1960s, who envisioned a communications network that would survive if a major enemy attacked. The sketch shows three different network topologies described in his RAND Memorandum, "On Distributed Communications: 1. Introduction to Distributed Communications Network" (August 1964). The distributed network structure offered the best survivability.
The Atlas of Cyberspace is a complete on-line atlas containing maps of Internet connections around the world. One of its chapters is devoted to the historical growth of the Internet. Like most atlases, this one contains little by way of description, letting the maps speak for themselves. However, because it is digital, it includes links to textual sources such as the full text 1964 Rand study: "On Distributed Communications: I. Introduction to Distributed Communications Network." Atlas images on the main history page can be expanded and include both geographical images and network maps, each with brief descriptions.
In the beginning there was the phone company — the brand-new Bell Telephone, to be precise. And there were nascent hackers. Of course in 1878 they weren't called hackers yet. Just practical jokers, teenage boys hired to run the switchboards who had an unfortunate predilection for disconnecting and misdirecting calls ("You're not my Cousin Mabel?! Operator! Who's that snickering on the line? Hello?"). Now you know why the first transcontinental communications network hired female operators.
It all happened in the days before The Great Distraction. (The Great Distraction, is another story, but here you can see the BIOS chip it contained),
Well, a Nascom, or to be more exact, a Nascom-2, was my first (well, not really, I had a Motorola D2 kit before that) computer. You youngsters out there, may have trouble calling it a computer. You'd more likely call it a piece of junk.
But, back in 1979 when I bought it (for a small fortune!), it was the state of the art. (At that time, HW development was so quick, that state of the art got old over lunch !)
It could run such fine games as Pacman, Breakout, Falling Stones, Night Driver, and many others, as well as a number of development tools. (pictures taken from my Nascom emulator).
The Institute was established in 1997 to excavate, preserve, research, and present interesting and historically significant computing devices. Our headquarters are located in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and our museum and research facilities are located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Some of the Institute's computers are on loan to the VintageTech Archive in Oakland, California.
We have limited space and resources, but we often do accept donations of pre-1981 computer-related material, and if we cannot accept a donation, we can often refer donors to other organizations and individual collectors who can.
A walk through any village cemetery or a search of old public records will reveal a sometimes-overlooked, yet quite astonishing fact -- in barely fifty years, human longevity worldwide has increased by more than 40%. The average life expectancy at birth has risen from around 46 years in the early 1950s to almost 65 years by 1996. This most important international public health achievement of the past half-century is a triumph for humanity. The World Health Organization (WHO) has played a vital, though often unobtrusive, role in this accomplishment.
My first exposure to computers was at age 6 (1963), as a subject in Dr. Patrick Suppes' accelerated mathematics experiment at Stanford. I was taken to a small room with what I now know was a CRT display and an intercom. I was asked to push some keys in response to some shapes on the screen. Afterwards, they showed me around a large room filled with big cabinets, some with lots of blinking white lights.
They said it was a "computer" and its name was the "PDP-1". A tall thin man asked me to hit a key on a console to make a "decktape". I had absolutely no idea what a "DEC tape" was at the time, but when I hit the key, a small pair of reels BEGAN TO TURN!! It was a moment I would never forget.
images from the technological revolution
The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, The Canadian Medical Association and The Canadian Medical Foundation aim to advance the knowledge and appreciation of medical developments in Canada by commemorating those who have made significant contributions.