Ken Shirriff
Description
You can find Ken on Twitter at twitter.com/kenshirriff and his blog righto.com.
- Soyuz blog post:
http://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyuz.html
- IBM System/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370
- Amdahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_Corporation
- Build Your Own Z80 Computer:
https://books.google.com/books?id=mVQnFgWzX0AC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Euler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
- Commodore PET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET
- TRS-80 (Trash-80): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 https://techland.time.com/2012/08/03/trs-80/
- Visual 6502: http://www.visual6502.org/
- MOS 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502
- Metallurgy microscope: https://www.amscope.com/compound-microscopes/metallurgical-microscopes.html
- AM2900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am2900
- MOS transistor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET
- Cray-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1
- Intel 4004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004
- Datapoint 2200: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200
- Intel 8008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8008
- Endianness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
- TTL chips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor%E2%80%93transistor_logic
- Big Endian and Little Endian:
https://chortle.ccsu.edu/AssemblyTutorial/Chapter-15/ass15_3.html
- Xerox Alto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
- Charles Simonyi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi
- Punched cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
- Why did line printers have 132 columns?:
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7838/why-did-line-printers-have-132-columns
- Teletype 33: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33
- Analogue computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
- Analogue computer thread: https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1223675683387265024
- Differential analyser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser
- Bitcoin mining on a 1401:
http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-ibm-1401.html
- Mining bitcoin with pencil and paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVo
- Bitcoin mining on a Xerox Alto:
http://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xerox-alto.html
- Bitcoin mining on the Apollo Guidance computer:
http://www.righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-mining-on-apollo-guidance.html
- Colossus computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
- Accounting machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_machine
- Memory phosphor: https://www.britannica.com/science/memory-phosphor
- Rowhammer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
- Core memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
- Williams tube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
- Core rope memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory
- Honeywell 800: https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/h800.html
- Honeywell 1800: https://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/doc-4372956da1170/
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-h.html#HONEYWELL-1800
- SPARC delayed branching:
https://arcb.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/codeopt/codeopt00/notes/delaybra.html
- IBM 360 Model 50: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_50
- RR Auction: https://www.rrauction.com/