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Gene Smith, Veteran
Read more: Gene Smith, VeteranMy dad Albert “Gene” Smith joined the US Naval Reserve in 1942. They put him to work teaching about radar, and eventually moved him over to the R&D side. Artifacts from his time in…
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Dad at auction
Read more: Dad at auctionCJ emailed me this link to a Bonham’s auction last summer. They sold a “complete set” of the Digital Computer Newsletter, a periodical Dad started in the late 1940s to share information about computers…
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Inventing Email
Read more: Inventing EmailEvery time people have congregated on interactive computer terminals, someone has put together chat and email systems. The systems we use today are based on “RFCs” – informal specifications developed by a community we now…
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