computing history
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Apple hid a postal barcode under ultraviolet light so a thank-you envelope could stay designed. That is how much work simplicity actually takes.
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Jim Nielsen defends the Big Box of Cables. Mine has followed me for thirty years through connectors that were supposed to make everything before them obsolete.
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Ken Shirriff's teardown of a 1980 Spacelab core-memory module makes 128 KB of RAM feel extraordinary again—each bit a ferrite ring you can point at.