Adam Savage has a couple of nice videos from the Paramount Film Archives. I especially enjoyed the second of these on the various media formats used over the years.
Tag: History
York Minster from Lop Lane
Whilst poking around on Getty.edu’s art search site I managed to stumble on this fascinating but sadly poor photograph of what is now the junction between Museum Street, St Leonard’s Place, Duncombe Place, and Blake Street. The photos current location can be seen on the StreetView below.
Continue reading “York Minster from Lop Lane”The ICT 1301 Resurrection Project
And now for something really rather fab to start your day off with – ICT 1301 resurrection project! Their goal is to restore the UK’s oldest 2nd Generation Electronic Stored Program Computer to functioning order.
They also have a lovely set of digitised technical manuals up to view!
Fab!
The Worst-selling Microsoft Software Product of All Time: OS/2 for the Mach 20
Raymond Chen at ‘The Old New Thing’ has a lovely tale about what could be Microsoft’s worst selling product ever – OS/2 for the Mach 20.
Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing.
According to that person’s memory (which given the amount time that has elapsed, means that we should basically be saying “according to legend” at this point), a total of eleven copies of “OS/2 for Mach 20” were ever sold, and eight of them were returned.
I’ve seen a few expansion cards as part of choosing images for ‘Retro Computer Adverts‘, but the Mach 10| 20 is not one I’ve yet stumbled across. And as for ads for ‘OS/2 for Mach 20’? Not a sausage!
Retro Computer Adverts – End of Month One
It’s now been a month since I first (quietly) launched ‘Retro Computer Adverts | Your daily dose of retro computing adverts!‘ and, so far, it’s remained a fun little project.
Continue reading “Retro Computer Adverts – End of Month One”HM Treasury Web Server Statistics (1994 – 1997)
Period Sites in Period Browsers has just thrown up another interesting little oddity – very early server stats from HM Treasury’s web server.
Continue reading “HM Treasury Web Server Statistics (1994 – 1997)”Inside the Globus INK: A Mechanical Navigation Computer for Soviet Spaceflight
Righto.com has a rather delightful introduction to and teardown of a Globus INK – a Soviet-era mechanical navigation aid for spaceflight.
The FAA/NASA animation of the closing of US Airspace on 9/11
A NASA animation of the FAA’s continental US flight logs from the morning of September 11th, 2001.
24 bloody years…
Netscape Navigator User Demographics circa 1996
So this lunchtime Period Sites in Period Browsers (PSPB) threw up an interesting bit of history – a brief overview of Netscape Navigator users circa 1996.
York Minster, West Front / James Valentine (between 1860 and 1879)
An old photo of what was, back then, a rather new view.
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