These computers ... first integrated circuit chips commercially available. But before even those transistor-based computers is a retrocomputing era rarely touched on: the era of programmable ...
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This story by Erin MacLellan first appeared in the Ohio State Alumni Magazine. MANSFIELD — Follow a winding trail into a forest on Ohio State’s Mansfield campus and you’ll find a grove of maple trees ...
There’s a Blue Bendix in Texas, and thanks to [Usagi Electric] it’s the oldest operating computer in North America. The Bendix G-15, a vacuum tube computer originally released in 1956 ...
Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.
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We test hundreds of products every year to separate the cream from the crop — from car vacuums to air fryers to the fluffiest ...