A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The First Disk Drive: RAMAC 350Computers hold thousands of data records. Imagine if finding the one you wanted required starting with the first, then going through them in order.High speed, random access memory—plucking information from storage without plodding through sequentially—is essential to the way we use computers today. IBM’s RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) magnetic disk drive pioneered this ability. The RAMAC 350 storage unit could hold the equivalent of 62,500 punched cards: 5 million characters (about 3.75 MB).

Anssi Vanjoki oli Nokian huippuvuosina johtokunnan suorapuheinen toisinajattelija. Vanjoki uskoo, että Nokia olisi yhä älypuhelinyhtiö, jos hänen linjansa olisi voittanut sisäisen taistelun.

This fall semester marks the first time in well over a decade that I have attempted to teach an undergraduate class that is exactly my research on what I fondly call “other networks.” I…

Everything the world’s briefly richest man built is failing at once.

Massive water fight between Sun Labs and SunSoft on July 24, 1992. Sun Microsystems Mountain View Campus.

Embedded signal timing scheme recognized as an IEEE Milestone