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In The Fractalist, how did high school students connect to IBM computers?
Here's a story that Benoit Mandelbrot tells about his work at IBM in his book The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick: My older son’s math teacher was himself learning to program, and he ...
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What was IBM VS/PC?
I found this 1976 Digital internal memorandum which is a competitive evaluation of IBM mainframes versus Digital's DECsystem-10 machines. Page 7 says the following: In 1976 IBM announced VS/PC which ...
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What did CPU time and disk space cost at a CDC 6600 Data Center?
In the mid-1970s,there was a big time sharing CDC service center in Waltham, MA. I'm curious what it cost to run computer jobs there. (My long winded story follows) In 1976, I had a summer job of &...
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