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SpaceX still needs NASA. NASA still does essential research that SpaceX needs but doesn't focus on. It's that SpaceX has the freedom that NASA doesn't have because it's a private company and not a government organization.

The Retro Tech Foundation is a nonprofit Apple computer museum in Watertown, Connecticut. Our collection holds more than 1,500 computers, accessories and artifacts, most of them kept in working order so you can sit down and use them, not just look at them.

GRAND OPENING: Saturday, November 14, 12-4 PM

Walk nearly five decades of Apple history in our Timeline gallery Step inside our full-scale recreation of the Crist Drive garage where the first Apple-1 boards were assembled, built with guidance from early Apple employee Daniel Kottke Tour the archive behind the exhibits Our special guest is computing pioneer Liza Loop. In 1975 she opened one of the first public-access computer centers and brought her passion for computer education to the Homebrew Computer Club. She's bringing the Apple-1 Steve Wozniak gave her for her students, and at 1:45 PM she'll sit down with co-founder Jacob Komar for a fireside chat.

Honestly the cult of Jobs is a bit much. I appreciate his contribution to computing, but this is too much.

EAC-1101 In March 1958, NEC finished its first digital computer, the NEAC-1101. This machine used parametrons, invented by Eiichi Goto in 1954, and was perfected by using a single-turn transformer coupling system independently devised by NEC. This computer was designed for scientific and engineering calculations, and was Japan's first computer to use floating point operations. It was capable of decimal 7-digit floating point operations. It used 3,600 parametrons, 29 types of instructions, and had average performance of 3.5ms for addition/subtraction and 8.0ms for multiplication/division. The memory employed ferrite cores (magnetic core matrix system using the 2 ACs with different frequency), and memory capacity was 256 words (32-digit configuration). The NEAC-1101 was enhanced via improvements like expanding the memory capacity to 512 words, and was used for about 8 years for scientific and engineering calculations at NEC's research laboratory. The results from developing this computer contributed greatly to the development of subsequent parametron computers at NEC.

https://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/dawn/0017.html

There were many in the Coast Guard arguing to keep LORAN running. This was one of the reasons.

Steve Job was a dick and Apple is a horrible company, say it ain't so.

Apple from Jobs to Cook screwed over many. At least Jobs didn't train the Chinese to undercut US manufacturing.

"NEWS" outlets are competing against social media and are doing things to get your attention.

Some "NEWS" outlets are leaning towards activism and the others are leaning towards entertainment. NEWS companies are now either Media or Technology companies. And journalism has taken a backseat to doing things to get attention

If they brought up CDI and Pippin, then why leave out Commodore CDTV and CD32?

SGI had unified memory back in 1996.

As a person who likes hand made items I'm for this. I will pay a premium for someone who hand makes an item. Bonus if it's someone older who provides old school craftsmanship.

I really want to make a joke about representation, but more to the point.

Having different ethnic people targets different demographics. We hear about people from various groups wanting this and now someone is doing it.

They seem to be getting traction by doing this. If it works for them others will follow.