What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive? – IEEE Spectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/space-age/what-does-it-take-to-keep-a-classic-mainframe-alive

Interesting story on keeping historical hardware running:
“So far, things are breaking slowly enough that we can keep up.”

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  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Tech-Bro Culture Was Written in the Code
    https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/dartmouth-basic-computer-programmers-tech-bros.html

    How computing pioneers at Dartmouth in the 1960s gave rise to the macho tech culture we see today.

    In the 1960s, Dartmouth College became ground zero for the coming explosion in American computing after college mathematics professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed a new programming language that was relatively easy to learn: Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC.

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