2026-04-16 09:56:16
Strolling through my book shelfs, I found »The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management: What Every Enterprise Needs to Know to Solve Its Data Deluge« by John William Toigo.
This book was published in 2000, and working in and around computer storage industry since 1998, I pretty much doubt the deluge is solved yet. #vintagecomputing
Weiß man eigentlich, wie sich der aufkommende Buchdruck mit beweglichen Lettern im 15. Jahrhundert wirtschaftlich auf Ressourcen auswirkte? Ich denke z. B. an einen plötzlich stark gestiegenen Papierbedarf, Druckerschwärze, später auch allerlei Metall für Lettern. Kann man dazu wo was nachlesen? #techhistory #buchdruck
CAD – Computer Aided Design – is nearly as old as computers itself. Read about the entire CAD history here: #techhistory
Yesterday I started researching the history of Transmeta and its Crusoe and Efficeon processor technology, namely LongRun and LongRun2. The research will end up in a talk for some future vintage computing events throughout Germany and/or Europe. #vintagecomputing #techhistory