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23 Things Only 90s Sysadmins will Remember – DiscoPosse.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/24

[WayBack] 23 Things Only 90s Sysadmins will Remember – DiscoPosse.com.

Much more for me:

–jeroen

via:

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Wolfgang Rupprecht on Dennis H. Klat, Carlos Hawking and Deeklatt – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/18

Wow: [WayBack] Wolfgang Rupprecht – Google+:

Dennis H. Klatt 1938 – 1988

I knew him at MIT. He was my undergraduate thesis advisor and was a kind and gentle person. When I knew him around 1980 he was about to build the prototype for the first Klatt Talker as it was called then. He had speech samples generated by running his mathematical model of the vocal tract on a large mainframe, but no way to generate speech in real time. I remember being quite happy years later when I heard he had convinced DEC to produce it. The local Boston radio stations would sometimes use it on air when they were goofing around. The initial voice (and the only voice early on) had a bug that made it sound like a Mexican accent to most people. It wasn’t intentional and was a bit of a surprise that a vocal tract modeled from first principles would sound that way. Going with that observation and figuring it was best to advertise bugs as features, the voice was often called “Carlos”. I didn’t realize that Hawking’s voice was also based on the Klatt models (and Klatt’s own voice at that!)

Poking around Google to see what else Google had on him dredged up one more interesting tidbit. There was a character in a TV cartoon called Deeklatt that used his voice. I wonder how many people realize that Deeklatt was a play on D. Klatt. Dennis, we should all be so lucky as to leave a legacy like yours.

–jeroen

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Sex, Pong, And Pioneers: What Atari Was Really Like, According To Women Who Were There

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/03

If we apply todays standards to the past, how will we be rated by future generations?

Interesting thoughts and stories on [WayBack] Sex, Pong, And Pioneers: What Atari Was Really Like, According To Women Who Were There.

Via:

–jeroen

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Bye bye plaxo link

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/28

Just found out that Plaxo died. So bye bye for this link:

–jeroen

via: [WayBack]Sean Parker’s other notorious startup, Plaxo, is finally dead — here’s how it influenced Facebook

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Etaoin shrdlu – via 5 Hole Paper Tape – Computerphile

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/29

Etaoin shrdlu (/ˈɛtiˌɔɪnˈʃɜrdluː/)[1] … is the approximate order of frequency of the 12 most commonly used letters in the English language.

via 5 Hole Paper Tape – Computerphile

Source: Etaoin shrdlu – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Installing A Maccon Card In A Macintosh Se/30 – Asante MacCon Family Ethernet Network Cards For The Macintosh Installation Manual [Page 29]

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/19

To get started:

Pictures, binary driver image from Index of /pdf/apple/nubus/asante/MacCon_SE30

Index of /pdf/apple/nubus/asante/MacCon_SE30

[ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
[PARENTDIR] Parent Directory –
[ ] 5000118-00-01.BIN 2018-01-11 10:16 16K
[IMG] Asante_MacCon_SE30_1.JPG 2018-01-10 14:24 545K
[IMG] Asante_MacCon_SE30_2.JPG 2018-01-10 14:24 418K
[IMG] Asante_MacCon_SE30_3.JPG 2018-01-11 10:17 573K
[IMG] Asante_MacCon_SE30_4.JPG 2018-01-11 10:17 543K
[IMG] Asante_MacCon_SE30_5.JPG 2018-01-11 10:17 439K
[IMG] Farallon_SI_A_Series_b.JPG 2018-01-11 10:17 438K
[IMG] Farallon_SI_A_Series_f.JPG 2018-01-11 10:17 637K
Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at bitsavers.trailing-edge.com Port 80

 

–jeroen

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Dutch daily weather data: KNMI – Daggegevens van het weer in Nederland

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/29

Cool data, in large parts suitable for statistical processing: [WayBack] KNMI – Daggegevens van het weer in Nederland

Thanks to Helga van Leur:

–jeroen

 

 

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cyber- (prefix): (1) A linguistic cue informing the reader that the meaning of…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/29

cyber- (prefix): (1) A linguistic cue informing the reader that the meaning of the word to follow should only be construed in the context of vaguely imminent threats and the need for more federal funding. (2) Something “computery.”

via: [WayBack] cyber- (prefix): (1) A linguistic cue informing the reader that the meaning of…

Many more words are here:

The New Devil’s Dictionary: 249 words for the end of the world

[WayBack] The New Devil’s Dictionary

–jeroen

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Historic storage prices: graphs and tables

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/18

[WayBack] retired Dr John C McCallum keeps historic information (prices, speeds, …) of computing stuff (storage, CPUs) since the 1950s on his web-site in table and graph forms:

What I like is the deviations in the graphs that show local phenomena.

This post is also a reminder to see what happened after this news item got published a year ago: [WayBack] ‘Prijzen ssd’s blijven komend kwartaal stijgen’ – Computer – Nieuws – Tweakers

–jeroen

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Crypto Museum (Amsterdam, 2016) – Google Photos

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/15

Last year Robin Sheat made this nice set of pictures: Crypto Museum (Amsterdam, 2016) – Google Photos

via:

–jeroen

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