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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

»Was sind die Neuen Medien und in welchen gesellschaftlichen Organisationsformen werden sie eingeführt? Da gibt es das Kabelfernsehen, die Blildplatte, Computer-Verbundsysteme, Bildschirmtext, Teletext und das Projekt BIGFON.«
Aus: Dieter Prokop – Heimliche Machtergreifung: Neue Medien verändern die Arbeitswelt (1984). #techhistory

Damals, als man ISDN-Router und Analogmodems so konfigurierte, dass sie nach wenigen Minuten idle die Verbindung selbständig beendeten. #techhistory #vintagecomputing #technikgeschichte

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

TUCOWS archive, remember? #techhistory #vintagecomputing #archive #shareware