Tag: RETROVIDEO

This week's Retro Video is a short history of ENIAC, which was "born" on February 15, 1946. On that day ENIAC's immense banks of vacuum tubes, crystal diodes, relays and other electronic parts were warmed to a crispy golden brown as ENIAC set to the task of calculating how best to turn humans a crispy golden brown. Happy Love Day! ...

In honor of UNIX time displaying 1234567890 tomorrow, here's the episode about UNIX on Computer Chronicles from 1985. Notice: they didn't warn us about the temporal rift! If you aren't familiar with the Computer Chronicles series, click as fast as you can to the Internet Archive and check it out. Good times, great oldies. ...