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28 March 2024
N 13:48 | IAS machine (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - alt name) |
N 13:47 | IAS computer (diff | hist) . . (+6,312) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (A good start) |
27 March 2024
04:35 | Installing UNIX Sixth Edition (diff | hist) . . (+89) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (→Programs: Mention devices for each driver) |
02:52 | Ferranti (diff | hist) . . (+396) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Mention Pegasus and Mercury; +Lavington, ''Early Computing in Britain") |
25 March 2024
N 02:49 | Bendix G-15 (2 changes | history) . . (+5,825) . . [Jnc (2×)] | ||
02:49 (cur | prev) . . (+23) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (→Internals: Correct how short tracks work) | |||
N | 01:22 (cur | prev) . . (+5,802) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (After much sifting of hard-to-comprehend documentation, here is a reasonable executive summary) |
N 01:23 | G-15 (diff | hist) . . (+25) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - short name) |
24 March 2024
N 21:14 | Minimum access coding (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - alt term) |
21:13 | Optimum programming (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (+also 'minimum access coding') |
23 March 2024
N 23:35 | Talk:Bendix G-15 (diff | hist) . . (+173) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (The most incomprehensible documentation ever) |
03:26 | Category:People (diff | hist) . . (+164) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Add link to 'Computer Pioneers by J. A. N. Lee' bio pages) |
22 March 2024
23:56 | Steve Jobs (diff | hist) . . (+335) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Expand into a stub :-)) |
23:33 | Louis Pouzin (diff | hist) . . (+165) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Louis' big idea) |
16:01 | Rubin 10-11 interface (diff | hist) . . (+1,609) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Fuller description) |
N 15:54 | Moby (diff | hist) . . (+385) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Stubby, but how much is there to say) |
N 15:44 | Fabritek (diff | hist) . . (+34) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - common short name at Tech Sq) |
12:12 | List of VAX models with PDP-11 compatibility mode (diff | hist) . . (+28) . . Larsbrinkhoff (talk | contribs) (Will this ever end?) |
21 March 2024
08:25 | List of VAX models with PDP-11 compatibility mode (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . Larsbrinkhoff (talk | contribs) (More clear? as four main models and variants thereof.) |
20 March 2024
14:53 | VAXstation 100 (diff | hist) . . (+26) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Clarify) |
N 14:48 | List of VAX models with PDP-11 compatibility mode (2 changes | history) . . (+337) . . [Larsbrinkhoff; Jnc] | ||
14:48 (cur | prev) . . (+172) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (+Header, cats) | |||
N | 12:59 (cur | prev) . . (+165) . . Larsbrinkhoff (talk | contribs) (Nice to have this spelled out clearly somewhere.) |
N 14:42 | Switch (diff | hist) . . (+1,465) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Current top of the 'Wanted pages' list) |
19 March 2024
23:25 | TX-0 (diff | hist) . . (+2,666) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Add instructions) |
N 17:32 | Royal McBee LGP-30 (diff | hist) . . (+20) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - alt name) |
N 17:31 | LGP-30 (diff | hist) . . (+3,864) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Fairly complete) |
12:33 | Optimum programming (diff | hist) . . (+16) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Minor clarifications) |
18 March 2024
N 23:36 | Optimum coding (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - alt term) |
N 23:36 | Optimal coding (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - alt name) |
N 23:35 | Optimal programming (diff | hist) . . (+33) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - alt term) |
N 23:34 | Optimum programming (diff | hist) . . (+1,505) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Reasonably complete) |
20:02 | Category:People (diff | hist) . . (-104) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Simplify header) |
20:00 | (Move log) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) moved page A.D. Booth to A. D. Booth without leaving a redirect (No space) |
19:45 | Drum (diff | hist) . . (+81) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Tweak order, add LGP-30) |
N 19:30 | LEO I (diff | hist) . . (+17) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - later name) |
19:29 | Delay line (diff | hist) . . (+235) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (+Computers that used them) |
18:07 | Leo Computers (diff | hist) . . (+38) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Tweaks) |
18:03 | LEO (diff | hist) . . (-62) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Delay line main memory) |
N 16:06 | DEUCE (2 changes | history) . . (+4,411) . . [Jnc (2×)] | ||
16:06 (cur | prev) . . (+187) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (+Good quote about it) | |||
N | 02:35 (cur | prev) . . (+3,379) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Fairly complete) |
N 15:20 | BB+N (diff | hist) . . (+39) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - another acronym form) |
N 00:32 | Pilot ACE (diff | hist) . . (+5,036) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Fairly complete) |
17 March 2024
17:35 | Automatic Computing Engine (3 changes | history) . . (+689) . . [Jnc (3×)] | ||
17:35 (cur | prev) . . (+337) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Note separate multiplier and divider hardware units) | |||
17:14 (cur | prev) . . (+282) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Minor tweaks) | |||
02:30 (cur | prev) . . (+70) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (The name was a conscious tribute to the Analytical Engine) |
17:01 | Delay line (diff | hist) . . (+183) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (→Delay line memory: Need optimum programming when used for main memory) |
16:53 | Drum (diff | hist) . . (+228) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Need optimum programming if used for main memory) |
N 04:26 | Talk:Packet switch (diff | hist) . . (+1,256) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Baran v. Davies) |
N 02:52 | English Electric (diff | hist) . . (+40) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - short form) |
16 March 2024
17:23 | John von Neumann (diff | hist) . . (+132) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Exact connection between the ACE and the EDVAC design is uncertain) |
N 17:16 | ACE (diff | hist) . . (+40) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - short form) |
N 17:13 | Automatic Computing Engine (diff | hist) . . (+4,556) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (A good start - documentation on it is very hard to find, now) |
15 March 2024
21:43 | SITS (diff | hist) . . (+728) . . Larsbrinkhoff (talk | contribs) (→Overview: Hardware problem caused flakiness.) |
18:34 | Charles Babbage (diff | hist) . . (+182) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (→Further reading: Annotate Babbage's Calculating Engines entry) |
N 15:07 | Alan Turing (2 changes | history) . . (+3,422) . . [Jnc (2×)] | ||
15:07 (cur | prev) . . (+31) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Clarify that ACE report was contemporaneous with EDVAC report) | |||
N | 00:50 (cur | prev) . . (+3,391) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Reasonably complete) |
14:06 | Computer History Wiki:News (diff | hist) . . (-1,218) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Archive some older entries to reduce size) |
14 March 2024
16:32 | Charles Babbage (diff | hist) . . (+657) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Mention the Mechanical Notation; +The Work of Charles Babbage) |
00:34 | (Move log) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) moved page Ferranti Mark I to Ferranti Mark 1 (Seems to have been its formal name then) |
N 00:33 | Ferranti Mark I (diff | hist) . . (+5,703) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Fairly complete) |
13 March 2024
N 23:14 | Talk:Manchester Mark I (diff | hist) . . (+442) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Mark ''I'' or Mark ''1'') |
23:07 | Manchester Mark I (diff | hist) . . (+477) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (More on name; slight re-factor to improve flow) |
07:57 | TYMCOM-X (diff | hist) . . (+84) . . Larsbrinkhoff (talk | contribs) (→External links: Docs at Bitsavers.) |
12 March 2024
N 14:21 | Manchester Mark 1 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - common contemporary form) |
N 14:20 | Manchester Mark I (diff | hist) . . (+3,610) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Reasonably complete) |
12:03 | Information Processing Techniques Office (diff | hist) . . (+82) . . Larsbrinkhoff (talk | contribs) (+BSD) |
11 March 2024
22:51 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (diff | hist) . . (-685) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Move IPTO material to new IPTO page) |
N 22:25 | Information Processing Techniques Office (diff | hist) . . (+1,433) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Split content off from DARPA article) |
20:11 | Charles Babbage (3 changes | history) . . (+1,980) . . [Jnc (3×)] | ||
20:11 (cur | prev) . . (+36) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (→Further reading: Tweak description of Doron Swade's Difference Engine book) | |||
15:06 (cur | prev) . . (+1,292) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Connection between Babbage and current computers) | |||
14:33 (cur | prev) . . (+652) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (→Further reading: Add comments on the items) |
12:59 | BCC 500 (2 changes | history) . . (+120) . . [Larsbrinkhoff (2×)] | ||
12:59 (cur | prev) . . (+60) . . Larsbrinkhoff (talk | contribs) (Also 940 instruction set.) | |||
12:58 (cur | prev) . . (+60) . . Larsbrinkhoff (talk | contribs) (Sold 1971, back online 1973.) |
10 March 2024
16:50 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (diff | hist) . . (+202) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Fix name error; add a few tweaks) |
N 16:49 | Graphic user interface (diff | hist) . . (+38) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Redir - adjective form) |
16:47 | UNIX (diff | hist) . . (+255) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Add roots) |
15:33 | (Deletion log) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) deleted redirect Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency by overwriting (Deleted to make way for move from "Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration") |
15:33 | (Move log) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) moved page Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency over redirect (Had the name wrong) |
12:24 | Template:InfoboxVAX-Data (diff | hist) . . (+71) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Standardize argument list) |
12:21 | Template:Infobox VAX (diff | hist) . . (+130) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Standardize argument list) |
11:49 | Charles Babbage (diff | hist) . . (+780) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Add Babbage's own prediction) |
N 11:41 | Analytical Engine (2 changes | history) . . (+1,925) . . [Jnc (2×)] | ||
11:41 (cur | prev) . . (+206) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (→Further reading: Improve annotations) | |||
N | 01:27 (cur | prev) . . (+1,719) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Stubby, but a home for URLs) |
9 March 2024
8 March 2024
17:10 | Charles Babbage (2 changes | history) . . (+521) . . [Jnc (2×)] | ||
17:10 (cur | prev) . . (+125) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Other work) | |||
03:27 (cur | prev) . . (+396) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Add a great summary quotation) |
13:41 | BCC 500 (3 changes | history) . . (+658) . . [Jnc; Larsbrinkhoff (2×)] | ||
13:41 (cur | prev) . . (+333) . . Jnc (talk | contribs) (Add some links, interesting Bitsavers material) | |||
10:05 (cur | prev) . . (+236) . . Larsbrinkhoff (talk | contribs) (Front ends.) | |||
09:46 (cur | prev) . . (+89) . . Larsbrinkhoff (talk | contribs) (→External links: 1979 tape from U Hawaii.) |