physical properties
Who are the first hackers?
Interestingly, modern schoolchildren and students of technical universities realize that the history of computers did not begin with Bill Gates, and the first hackers did not hack servers, and wrote … games for entertainment?
Let’s start from the middle, because for a correct logical narrative, one would have to start from the 50s of the last century. And today, few will master this information, and not because it’s boring, but because it’s all such junk, the first “humanized” programming languages Beisk, Fortran, Kobol and even Pascal existing today. They are as ancient as the real human languages, Latin and ancient Greek, and, thank Continue reading
How did Seymour Cray build supercomputers?
Elite customers bought the first supercomputers – the Atomic Energy Commission and the Weather Bureau. For three years, 63 CDC 6600 computers were sold, these computers worked in major US academic institutions. But there are no limits to the best … Seymour CrayFoto: Source In 1968, the CDC 7600 supercomputer was released, which was then again the fastest computer in the world. The clock frequency of its central processor was 36 megahertz (the clock frequency of a modern commercial personal computer is a thousand times higher). A total of 50 of these computers were sold. Few? But we should not forget that the supercomputer both then and now is a very expensive car, they are bought individually. Therefore, this market is quite limited. The next model, the CDC 8600, was made, but they did not release it to the market. Having gained a position in the world of business, the company began to expand and promote more profitable commercial projects. Reckless youth ended, the usual work began, in many ways routine. Life was to become prosperous, but boring. We are moving to a new building: the housing problem spoiled the Muscovites … but not the Petersburgers! We are looking for special mortgage conditions on the St. Petersburg Real Estate website and begin to plan our new life in a new area of the city. Recommended St. Petersburg Real Estate Cray realized that he had to leave in order to make a new take-off. Continue reading
How does a person control a computer? Present and future
What devices do we use to control computers with? At first there were the tumblers, then the electric typewriters. The technique developed, color video monitors appeared, various new devices appeared that made it possible to control a computer. Color monitors have been very popular since the 1990s for the then latest Windows OS. And at the same time, many devices were invented, invented back in the DOS era and found use after it – in the Windows era. Photo: Depositphotos Computer mouse The mouse was patented in 1970. The author of the “mouse” is California engineer Douglas Engelbard. As a standard computer peripheral, a computer mouse began to act in the Xerox 8010 mini-computer, and it cost then, if you translate it into modern money, no less than $ 1,000! As time went on, technology improved, the Apple mouse in 1983 already began to cost only $ 25, and when the world began to take over the Continue reading
