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Cliff Richard 15 Tips To Write MBA Dissertation

After the completion of my graduation degree, I eagerly took admission in MBA thinking that I would do it as I did my graduation. But it was quite wrong when I was assigned to write MBA dissertation. And I realized it that MBA dissertation was the last stumbling block in my way to get MBA degree. I started writing MBA dissertation because I was waiting to get closer and closer to get through MBA and start my professional car… Continue

Added by Cliff Richard on October 7, 2009 at 6:27am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton Vol Libre, an amazing CG film from 1980

In 1980, Boeing employee Loren Carpenter presented a film called Vol Libre at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference. It was the world's first film using fractals to generate the graphics. Even now it's impressive to watch: http://www.kottke.org/09/07/vol-libre-an-amazing-cg-film-from-1980 Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on October 6, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton Comptometer does broadcast controls the steampunk way

If you build a specialized type of hardware which, by design, rarely arouses emotions of physical desire in the general populace, you can see how you might have a bit of a challenge promoting your wares. How you get around that tiny issue is by pulling off a stunning steampunk mod while retaining the full functionality of the hardware, as British company Hi Tech have done with their Comptometer. The server controller, customized for use in live video broadcasting and editing, has already won a d… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on October 1, 2009 at 7:35am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton The American Physical Society Historic Sites Initiative

"The purpose of the Historic Sites initiative is to raise public awareness of physics. Unexpected encounters with an attractive plaque that identifies an important and interesting event in the history of physics will be an effective way of getting physics before the general public. The initiative will also benefit physicists by increasing their own awareness of important past scientific advances, hence of their membership in the historic evolution of their profession."… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on September 15, 2009 at 6:29am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton Restoring one of the world's oldest computers

Work began this week on restoring what will be the world's oldest working stored-program electronic computer. Volunteers at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park will rebuild the Witch machine (shown here) - a computer that was first used in 1951 for atomic research. Witch - the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell - was based on telephone exchange relays and 900 Dekatron gas-filled tubes, which could each hold a single digit in memory. Paper tape w… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on September 9, 2009 at 3:55am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton The Robot Hall of Fame

The Robot Hall of Fame recognizes excellence in robotics technology worldwide and honors the fictional and real robots that have inspired and made breakthrough accomplishments in robotics. The Robot Hall of Fame was created by Carnegie Mellon University in April 2003 to call attention to the increasing contributions from robots to human society. Each year, Carnegie Mellon University assembles a jury of scholars, researchers, writers, designers, and… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on May 11, 2009 at 10:22am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton Photos: The evolution of the PC

From the PDP-8 and Commodore PET, to the Apple Newton and iPhone. source; http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39428128,00.htm Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on May 8, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009

A Graphical User Interface (GUI for short) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a user friendly way. Over the years a range of GUI’s have been developed for different operating systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windowsamiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and more. We’ll be taking a look at the evolution of the interface designs of the major operating systems since the 80’s. Source: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/operating-system-interface-design-between-1981-2009/ Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on April 20, 2009 at 10:33am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton A Brief History of CPUs: 31 Awesome Years of x86

Believe it or not, your terrifically fast Core i7 fresh off Intel's assembly line contains DNA that dates back over three decades. The same is true if you roll with AMD's latest silicon, the Phenom II X4. We're of course referring to the longstanding x86 microprocessor architecture that has dominated the desktop and mobile scene since before some of you were even born, and will probably be a mainstay still yet for many more years to come. Invented by Intel in 1978, the x86 architecture has evol… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on April 15, 2009 at 8:16am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton UK university develops massive games emulator

Videogames are not pulp cultural artefacts and should be preserved. Computer historians and researchers at Portsmouth University in the UK are developing a software emulator that will recognise and play all types of videogames and computer files from the 1970s through to the present day. "Early hardware, like games consoles and computers, are already found in museums. But if you can't show visitors what they did, by playing the software on them, it would be much the same as putting musical ins… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on February 12, 2009 at 8:01am — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene A look back in technohistory...

"1968: Computer scientist Douglas Engelbart kicks off the personal computer revolution with a product demonstration that is so amazing it inspires a generation of technologists. It will become known as "the mother of all demos." Read on ... Image Reference: http://itknowledgeex… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on December 9, 2008 at 9:08pm — No Comments

Kevin Chilton 300 Old Cars Down On The Alameda Street

We're now 14 months into the Down On The Street series, and the total of interesting old vehicles found parked on the streets of Alameda, California, reached the three hundred mark yesterday. Newcomers to this series might want to check out the Down On The Street FAQ before making the jump and viewing the smorgasbord of old iron that thrives outdoors on the Island That Rust Forgot.… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on August 10, 2008 at 5:21am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton UK failing to respect computing heritage

IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage following the mothballing of the Museum of Computing in Swindon. silicon.com asked a number of CIOs whether the UK made the most of its computing history and the answer was a resounding no. European IT director at Key Equipment Finance, Nic Evans, said: "Heritage counts for naught in the information economy. Bletchley Park cracking Enigma or Brit Berners-Lee inventing the web gives us as much advan… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on August 8, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton One tonne 'Baby' marks its birth

Sixty years ago the "modern computer" was born in a lab in Manchester. The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby", was the first to contain memory which could store a program. The room-sized computer's ability to carry out different tasks - without having to be rebuilt - has led some to describe it as the "first modern PC". Using just 128 bytes of memory, it successfully ran its first set of instructions - to determine the highest factor of a number - on 21 June 1948. "We were extremely… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on July 10, 2008 at 12:04pm — No Comments

Kevin Chilton Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0

"If access to higher education is a necessary element in expanding economic prosperity and improving the quality of life, then we need to address the problem of the growing global demand for education, as identified by Sir John Daniel. Compounding this challenge of demand from college-age students is the fact that the world is changing at an ever-faster pace. Few of us today will have a fixed, single career; instead, we are likely to follow a trajectory that encompasses multiple careers. As we m… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on April 13, 2008 at 3:27pm — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene 367 Addison Avenue

"Silicon Valley is pitted with sites of pilgrimage for geeks but, for many, the lovingly restored garage at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto is a draw like no other. In some senses this unassuming suburban street in Northern California can be considered the birthplace of the world's first hi-tech region. It is where the founders of Hewlett Packard got started. The restoration effort means that t… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on April 13, 2008 at 11:37am — No Comments

Mechelle De Craene Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville

"At first listen, the grainy high-pitched warble doesn't sound like much, but scientists say the French recording from 1860 is the oldest known recorded human voice. The 10-second clip of a woman singing "Au Clair de la Lune," taken from a so-called phonautogram, was recently discovered by audio historian David Giovannoni. The recording predates Thomas Edison's… Continue

Added by Mechelle De Craene on April 3, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Kevin Chilton A bad case of cracked crystal balls

I am researching an article on technology predictions for the coming year and came across these perfect howlers. I just love it when we get it so dramatically wrong.

  1. “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” — A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876).
  2. “The wireless music bo
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Added by Kevin Chilton on February 9, 2008 at 10:34am — No Comments

Kevin Chilton History’s Hidden Nuggets

I’m so glad sometimes for the imperfections of search engines. Otherwise you would never stumble across gems such as these:

Steve Jobs Signed My Macintosh

Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, Inc., signed my Macintosh. And if you’re the owner of a Mac 128k, 512k, or Plus, he signed yours too. In fact, so did

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Added by Kevin Chilton on January 25, 2008 at 2:49pm — No Comments

Kevin Chilton Welcome to the Obsolete Technology Website

Thank god for amateurs. Where wold History be without its amateurs?

This website is a real find. Full of interesting content and containing an interesting collection of links.

Welcome to the Obsolete Technology Website
Early personal computers were nothing like present day computers, they had personality!
Each was different and more exciting than the previous, with new features and capabilities. This website is dedicated to the p… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on January 22, 2008 at 3:07pm — No Comments

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