George Dyson: The birth of the computer
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http://www.ted.com Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.
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@BIKabballa I remember coding in C++ on a 286SX computer with 256KB of RAM. The computer was so slow that I coded most of the day in and put the program to compile to go eat, and it still wouldn't have finished compiling by the time I was done
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@EGarrett01 I dont care! Haven't you learned anything yet? Haven't you learned you cant kill people!
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People's misconceptions...it's all crap. My sister works in a lab that does stem cell research at USC & the women there are all HOT. All of the departments in this big research facility get together for parties on a regular basis & they all drink lots of alcohol. When it comes to work they all work very hard but when it comes time to relax they party...professionals in various fields of science in the 21st century are far from the dull cliche depictions in 20th century films.
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Killing Dyson might actually prevent the war...
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Why did the audience laugh when they showed the computer that von Neumann's computer?
It's that kind of thinking that halts innovations.
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my name is george dyson hahahahaa
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i want that program :O
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A computer virus I mean.
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I suppose it's also a generation gap thing too. When I was a kid, my pops purchased a 'family computer' which we lovingly referred to as the TRASH 80. I think it's total memory was around 8K, if that, and it used a tape drive to store data. It also had a dot matrix printer, and optional 'modem' to 'talk' with other TRASH 80 owners. I wrote a few BASIC language programs back in the day. That was around 30 years ago my friend. The young folk today seem to have no clue how fast things have changed.
BIKabballa 3 years ago 10
That's because you have Asperger's. Not all engineers are humorless. Some of us are not on the autistic spectrum, and we can laugh empathetically at the frustrations of our precursors. Please spend a little more time in your hugbox dwelling upon the fact that you are not normal.
CadicusTheDamned 3 years ago 8