hpr1664 :: Life and Times of a Geek part 1
I've been using computers for more than 40 years. This is part 1 of my story
Hosted by Dave Morriss on 2014-12-18 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
computer, mainframe, programming, punched card, paper tape, teletype, graph plotter, ALGOL 60.
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How I got into tech.
Started by monsterb, this series invites people to share with us how they found Linux. It has become traditional for first time hosts to share with us their journey to Linux. Indeed it has morphed to be way to share your journey in tech right up to your first contribution to HPR.
Life and Times of a Geek - part 1
I really liked David Whitman's idea of doing a show on his birthday https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1547, so I'm borrowing the idea.
This show is being released on my 65th birthday, and I decided to use this opportunity to tell you about my long experience with computational devices as part of the series "How I Found Linux". Thinking about what I want to cover, I realise that it might be quite a lot, so I'm organising the shows into a collection of short episodes.
I have been thinking about doing this for a while. Up until now I was concerned that it would be a bit self-indulgent, but I have been advised to just go ahead and do it. I hope you find the shows interesting.
The full notes for this episode are to be found here: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1664_full_notes.html
Links
- Full notes https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1664_full_notes.html
- Great Smog, Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog
- Slide Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule
- Aberystwyth:
- Town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberystwyth
- Aberystwyth University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberystwyth_University
- Statistical tests:
- Chi-square test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-squared_test,
- Student's t-test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%27s_t-test
- Mechanical Calculator, Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_calculator
- Algol 60:
- Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60
- Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60:
- PDF version https://viega.org/cs6373/papers/algol60-revisedreport.pdf
- HTML version https://www.masswerk.at/algol60/report.htm
- Stropping (Syntax) Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stropping_%28syntax%29
- Elliott Brothers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Brothers_%28computer_company%29
- Elliott Algol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_ALGOL
- Core memory https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/KL_CoreMemory.jpg
- The punched card era:
