What Was Your First Computer?

A lovely book landed on my desk today: Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers by John Alderman, Dag Spicer, and Mark Richards. It starts with a reconstructed version of the Z3 Adder, a WWII-era machine that used “hole-punched movie film” to store data, and goes up through Google’s first production server, which is [...]

Trek Returns, Xmas ’08

Oh, snap. I may have to become a Christian just for the occasion.