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| Saturday May 13, 2006 |
|  | | | ARPA in the 1970s | | | Dr. Lukasik will discuss how the ARPAnet/Internet started -- why ARPA made the project, what were the expectations and visions, how that compares to what actually happened, J.C.R. Licklider's role, and stories related to the beginnings of email, IETF / RFC structure for technical standards, architectural disagreements, lack of security, and more. (Click the picture for Steve's bio.) |
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|  | | | VCF Shenanigans | | | Sellam will discuss all the latest and greatest happenings at VCF central and take questions from the audience. |
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|  | | | The Origins of Personal Computers | | Sol will discuss the very early days of personal computing including:
- Homebrew computers built before microprocessors and the hobbyists who built them
- Early kit computers and the hobbyist who built them
- Amateur Computer Group of NJ (the oldest computer club) meetings from 1975-76
- The April 1976 Trenton Computer Festival, the first hobbyist computer show.
(Click the picture for Sol's bio.)
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|  | | | The total idiocy of starting a magazine... | | "The total idiocy of starting a magazine for a product that doesn't exist": Will range over a broad landscape touching on programming in the 1950s, Japan's fifth-generation project, homebrew computers, the ten worst PC applications, the Philadelphia Computer Music Festival, computer fear--1975, and how DEC totally blew it in the PC market. Will conclude with a brief charity auction of 1.) an original copy of the first edition of Basic Computer Games and 2.) a set of the first 12 issues of Creative Computing. (Click the picture for David's bio.)
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|  | | | An early microprocesser before Intel | | | The commercial microprocessor has been credited as "invented" by Intel Corp. with the introduction of the 4004 in 1972. However, quietly leading up to this development were many attempts to put more and more computer logic onto silicon chips. Most of these attempts were only paper designs. The F14 Fighter Jet Central Air Data Computer (CADC) was one attempt that accomplished its goal and pushed the technology envelope beyond what was expected in the late 1960s. It had many design features including math co-processing, parallel processing, execution piplining, and built-in programmed self-test and redundancy. Shrouded in secrecy for 30 years, this accomplishment was not publicly known until 1998. Since then many industry designers have debated and argued that this was, in fact, the first microprocessor, several years before Intel's accomplishment. |
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