The entire modern computer market would probably never have been born, at least in the way we know it, without the processor, Intel 8080, published 50 years ago. The Intel 8080 (“eighty-eighty”) is the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel. It first appeared in 1974. The 8080 was not yet an x86 processor, →
Here is a collection of links to information on the history of the PC sound and PC sound cards. LGR – Evolution of PC Audio – As Told by Secret of Monkey Island Evolution of PC Graphics and Sound as told by The Secret of Monkey Island Before sound cards Before Soundcards were common place, →
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source[12] web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. Firefox web browser turned 20 years old just few days ago. Frederic Lardinois / →
GNU project turned 40 years old few days ago. GNU turns 40: Stallman’s baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there’s cake It turned the software industry upside down regardless https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/20/gnu_turns_40/ Happy birthday to GNU. On September 27, there will be events in both the US and Switzerland to celebrate the 40th anniversary →
A modem, short for “modulator-demodulator,” is a device that converts digital data from a computer or other digital device into an analog signal that can be transmitted over analog communication lines, such as a telephone line. The term Modem Definition is an acronym for modulator-demodulator. The primary modem function is to convert digital data into →
Here is a computer music history story. It has some background history and details on the parts I had something to do. This story of history of computer music starts from 1951 when the first computer music recording was made using a Ferranti Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester. That computer played God →