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Whether or not the Dallas Cowboys are America's favorite team any more is not important. What the did do was bring electronic computing to football and spawned the computers in other sports. Now if you watch any major football game you can see electronic tablets at the  benches of many team. not only for statistics, but to replace the photos normally strewn all over the sidelines. Prior to joining the Cowboys, Tex Schramm had worked as a CBS Sports executive, helping broadcast the Winter Olympics, where he became aware of and intrigued by the use of computers. He decided that computers could help the Cowboys choose players from the draft, including young athletes other clubs might miss. "I decided ... that I would have to find an objective method of deciding on the worth of a football player ... I thought we had to find a way to judge players without emotion,” Schramm told Sports Illustrated in 1968. “We used computers to figure scores and standings when I wa...

Remember #caldera , #SCO and etc. Guess they forgot they gave out their source code. #linux   #IBM  

Computers are getting smaller and smaller. We use them to solve problems, but you still have to give them instructions to do what you want. Computer languages are a way to give the computer the instructions you want it to use.  The first computer I ever used was at college. Then they did not even have a computer major. Mostly you majored in math. The first computer was large and bulky. We used punch cards to get computer code into the machine. In fact, we used a language call Fortran (Formula translation) which was the forerunner of a more recent language called Basic (Beginner’s all purpose instruction code).  Fortran is still actually around and you can still use it. On Linux it is sometimes called gfortran. Basic has evolved into so many variations that are too many to mention though you may have heard of VB.net. Personally I prefer Quickbasic variations for my non-gui systems. The next computer I used in the professional world was the Datapoint Terminal i...

Shame that computer makers have pretty much eliminated the parallel port. You can use the usb parallel cables or if you can find them pci cards are available on a declining basis. The usb parallel cables are not completely compatible with the traditional parallel port.  This a shame because so many options are available for the parallel port. Everything from the old Covox fake sound card interface, digital interfacing including I2C, and even doing CNC machining.  So many options taken away from users. Using the parallel port is as easy as making a cable. The centronics parallel interface has the available thirty-six pins. Coming off the computer the computer has only twenty-five pins. If you really look at the parallel port only eighteen pins are only what is used. With two ten pin terminal bars, you can access the eighteen usefull pins from the parallel port. You can control stepper motors, led lights, and a host of other pieces of equipment. One of the reasons like to...

You can download the source code from IBM. Link is below. $ mkdir nweb $ cd nweb Download and extract the tar file $ tar zxvf es-nweb.tar Compile $ gcc nweb.c -o nweb (Compiles quickly) nweb port [directory} and run in background: (I just used the current directory for testing) $ nweb 8181 . & Point to it from a browser. Actually I used the web directory on my existing web server to see what I would get.). IBM suggests.   $ mkdir /home/nag/webpages $ cd /home/nag/webpages $ cp /tmp/nweb.tar . $ tar xvf nweb.tar $ ls client.c index.html nigel.jpg nweb.c nweb_AIX51 nweb_RedHat9_pentium nweb_SuSE_SLES8_PowerPC $ chmod ugo+x nweb $ chmod ugo+r *.html *.jpg $ nweb 8181 /home/nag/webpages & More information here and the download at: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-nweb/index.html

You can download the source code from IBM. Link is below. $ mkdir nweb $ cd nweb Download and extract the tar file $ tar zxvf es-nweb.tar Compile $ gcc nweb.c -o nweb (Compiles quickly) nweb port [directory} and run in background: (I just used the current directory for testing) $ nweb 8181 . & Point to it from a browser. Actually I used the web directory on my existing web server to see what I would get.). IBM suggests.   $ mkdir /home/nag/webpages $ cd /home/nag/webpages $ cp /tmp/nweb.tar . $ tar xvf nweb.tar $ ls client.c index.html nigel.jpg nweb.c nweb_AIX51 nweb_RedHat9_pentium nweb_SuSE_SLES8_PowerPC $ chmod ugo+x nweb $ chmod ugo+r *.html *.jpg $ nweb 8181 /home/nag/webpages & More information here and the download at: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-nweb/index.html

Computers are getting smaller and smaller. We use them to solve problems, but you still have to give them instructions to do what you want. Computer languages are a way to give the computer the instructions you want it to use.  The first computer I ever used was at college. Then they did not even have a computer major. Mostly you majored in math. The first computer was large and bulky. We used punch cards to get computer code into the machine. In fact, we used a language call Fortran (Formula translation) which was the forerunner of a more recent language called Basic (Beginner's all purpose instruction code).  Fortran is still actually around and you can still use it. On Linux it is sometimes called gfortran. Basic has evolved into so many variations that are too many to mention though you may have heard of VB.net. Personally I prefer Quickbasic variations for my non-gui systems. The next computer I used in the Professional world was the Datapoint Terminal in the days o...

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If I was limited to only one tech site it would without a doubt be arstechnica.com.  They have a nack for good tech news pieces, good analysis, and a sense of history: UNIVAC: the troubled life of America's first computer .