notes.husk.org. tagged computers.

2013-05-10

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Computers of NASA - 1960s (by luridplanet)

The vector graphics starting at 7’12” are yelling for an animated GIF treatment.

A group of pupils at a middle school in Alaska took control of their classroom computers after phishing for administrator privileges. They asked teachers at Schoenbar Middle School, for 12 to 13-year-olds, to enter admin names and passwords to accept a false software update, according to reports.

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Associated Press said that at least 18 pupils were involved in the phishing, which gave them control over 300 computers allocated for student use at the school in the Alaskan town of Ketchikan.

Those computers have now been seized.

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Alaskan phishing pupils take over classroom computers at BBC News (via iamdanw)

2012-12-03

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“ In 1969, Ampex created and maintained the Videofile system, which recorded files and photos to a magnetic videotape system long before the advent of commercial computer hard drives (to this day, Britain’s New Scotland Yard still uses the Videofile system to store perpetrators’ fingerprints) ”

A random UK reference aside in Chris Stokel-Walker’s post at Buzzfeed on The Inside Story Of Pong. Ampex is where many of the early Atari developers started up.

2012-04-10

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An advert for the Burroughs 205 Computer, designed by Campbell-Ewald Company, posted to Flickr by bustbright.

2012-04-05

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“ Seventeen 803 machines were exported to America between 1960 and 1963, where they were applied to on-line industrial process control - sometimes via the Panellit company under the badge of Panellit 609 computers. In the UK, a notable first for an Elliott 803 in 1960 was the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)’s Calder Hall atomic station project at Windscale (Sellafield). The 803 provided a 24/7 logging and alarm-scanning system for the prototype Magnox gas-cooled reactor, for what became the world’s first industrial scale nuclear power station. ”

Simon Lavington on Elliott Computers, from Computer Resurrection Issue 42.

2012-02-15

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“computers exploded, not bombs” by moleitau on Flickr.

2011-12-10

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“ Over the decades, airliners have been built with increasingly automated flight-control functions. These have the potential to remove a great deal of uncertainty and danger from aviation. But they also remove important information from the attention of the flight crew. While the airplane’s avionics track crucial parameters such as location, speed, and heading, the human beings can pay attention to something else. But when trouble suddenly springs up and the computer decides that it can no longer cope—on a dark night, perhaps, in turbulence, far from land—the humans might find themselves with a very incomplete notion of what’s going on. ”

Jeff Wise: What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 at Popular Mechanics.