Personal Computer History

"Electric Brain" the Chinese symbole for computer
- Inspired by this interesting breakdown, I have asked a good friend (Spehro Pefhany) to find a Chinese translation of "MassMind." The result is most pleasing to me.

The First Generation Computers

Intel

Hackers

Centronics

Byte Magazine

Did you know?

Hedy Lamarr co-invented spread spectrum modulation during WWII.

...and yes, that is the absolute truth. She had no great technical ability, but when the problem of radar and radio jamming was explained to her, she suggested changeing the frequency according to a preset pattern (like a song) to keep the Germans guessing. Her fresh point of view made the difference.

FAQs and Archives

See also:

http://uploader.wuerzburg.de/gym-fkg/schule/fachber/englisch/joel/songtext.html "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel with links to each of the historical items it referes.
http://www.raygirvan.co.uk/apoth/5.htm Great History site... links to Babbage and other sites.
http://www.shai.com/ai_general/history.html Cronology of Artificial Intellegence
http://www.computergarage.org/Garage/jcgm-mic.shtml
http://home.infi.net/~wtnewton/oldcomp/index.html

Learn about computers from watching movies? +

Questions:

CandyQueen_B2 at spammsn.com asks: " how long has the computer been around?
and who invented the first computer?
" James Newton replies: That depends entirely on your definition of the word "computer"+
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Robotics nuts!

Check out http://users.frii.com/dlc/robotics/projects/botproj.htm from Dennis Clark. This guy ROCKS! He has made (and sells but also releases code, docs, etc...) for a number of cool little robotic modules including whiskers, IR proximity detect and remote control, Sonar proximity detect, PWM, Servo, compass. Most of these use the little PIC 12C508 controller which costs basically nothing and is soooo tiny.
The 4 servos, 2400 baud serial servo controller is a wonder of magic and he sells the programmed chip for $8. Wow!