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In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024
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CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.
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The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming
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Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to...
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The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release
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In celebration of Unix’s 50th anniversary, the CHM Software History Center is delighted to make publicly accessible for the first time some of the earliest source code produced in the Unix story.
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For his invention of the first program-controlled, electromechanical, digital computer and the first high-level programming language, "Plankalkul"
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Had Steve Jobs’ first company not bought his second, history likely would have been very different. Apple might not exist today. No iPhone. But what could have happened to NeXT?
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For his co-creation, with Dennis Ritchie, of the UNIX operating system, and for development of the C programming language
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NuvoMedia Rocket e-Book - CHM Revolution
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<p>In the late 1990s, the appearance of credible e-book readers like the Rocket prompted tech pundits to predict the end of conventional publishing—a few years too early.</p>
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For a lifetime of entrepreneurship promoting the growth of the UK software industry and the advancement of women in computing.
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Find out about the little-known history of the consoles and gaming PCs that ran the classic video games we know and love.
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The experience of women, and the issues of gender and sexuality, are vitally important to our understanding of the story of computing, and hence our contemporary world, for many reasons. Perhaps most straightforwardly, women have been ubiquitous throughout the history of computing as makers and...
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Computer History Museum Is "Thinking Big" with New Ada Lovelace Exhibit
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CHM kicks off a year-long bicentennial celebration of Victorian mathematician and visionary Ada Lovelace with a new exhibit opening and exclusive launch event with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
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Computer History Museum Names New Fellows to Honor Lifetime Achievements in Computing
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — May 30, 2024 — The Computer History Museum (CHM), the leading institution decoding technology—its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity—today proudly announced its 2024 Fellow Award honorees: Atari Team: Allan Alcorn, Nolan Bushnell, and Steven...
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DEC’s Blockbuster: The PDP-8 - CHM Revolution
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DEC’s Blockbuster: The PDP-8The Canadian Chalk River Nuclear Lab approached Digital Equipment Corporation in 1964. It needed a special device to monitor a reactor. Instead of designing a custom, hard-wired controller as expected, young DEC engineers C. Gordon Bell and Edson de Castro did...
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Harold Cohen and AARON—A 40-Year Collaboration
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Harold Cohen was a pioneer in computer art, in algorithmic art, and in generative art; but as he told me one afternoon in 2010, he was first and foremost a painter. He was also an engineer whose work defined the first generation of computer-generated art. His system, AARON, is one of the...
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CHM Makes Apple Lisa Source Code Available to the Public as a Part of Its Art of Code Series
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Mountain View, CA – Jan. 19, 2023: The Computer History Museum (CHM), the leading museum exploring the history of computing and its impact on the human experience, today announced the public release and long-term preservation of the source code for the Apple Lisa, including its system and...
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Today, we take for granted that we are always online, but in the '80s and '90s, dialing in to an online community was an intentional act.
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When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
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Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. That can pose a risk to your privacy—even your safety. At the same time, big datasets could lead to huge advances in fields like medicine. In NOVA’s Secrets in Your Data, host Alok...
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IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design
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When IBM hired designers in the 1950s to shape how the public would see the new computing technology, the tech giant changed modern corporate branding forever.
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Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code
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The dominant word processing program for personal computers in the 1980s was DOS-based WordPerfect. Microsoft Word for DOS, which had been released in 1983, was an also-ran.
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Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System
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Fifty years ago, PC software pioneer Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system.
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Inside System/360 - CHM Revolution
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The SoftwareSystem/360’s software was also ambitious. Variations of one operating system, OS/360, were supposed to run on all the models.But OS/360 was hard to write -- especially the complex “multiprogramming” versions that ran several programs at once -- and it was late. Three special OSs had...
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Long before online forums and communities like Reddit and Discord, and even before the World Wide Web, bulletin board systems (BBSs) reigned supreme. During their heyday in the 1980s and ’90s, millions of people dialed their modems into more than 100,000 BBSs, and their impact can still be felt...
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Gary Kildall and the 40th Anniversary of the Birth of the PC Operating System
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Late one afternoon in the fall of 1974, in the sleepy California seaside town of Pacific Grove, programmer Gary Kildall and electronic engineer John Torode “retired for the evening to take on the simpler task of emptying a jug of not-so-good red wine … and speculating on the future of our new...
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Harwood Kolsky, an emeritus professor of computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz, was a physicist who became a computer scientist well before that field was a recognized department of academic learning. He worked on many early computers and their applications and...
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For seminal work in programming languages and algorithms, including Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, Modula, and Oberon
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<p>The Spaceball controller allows you to move and rotate a simulated object as if you were holding it in your hand.</p>
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Smaller and Faster: The Cray-2 and 3 - CHM Revolution
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Smaller and Faster: The Cray-2For many supercomputers, swifter meant bigger. But the Cray-2 supercomputer, though smaller than the Cray-1, ran 12 times faster. It computed in one second what would have taken ENIAC several months.The Cray-2 took nine years to develop. Released in 1985, each of...
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The Banana Junior 6000: Computers and Comedy - CHM
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The truest sign of anything becoming a part of everyday culture is when it has been picked up by the world of comedy.
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Watch the program on YouTube here! In January 1984, Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple Macintosh, an “insanely great” computer “for the rest of us” that changed the world—and Apple itself. Exemplifying a (counter) culture of changemakers, the Mac brought the graphical user interface to the masses and...
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In Memoriam: Niklaus Wirth (1934–2024) - CHM
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CHM remembers CHM Fellow Niklaus Wirth, developer of the Pascal programming language, who passed away on January 1, 2024.
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Introducing the Smalltalk Zoo - CHM
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In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the release of Smalltalk-80, the Computer History Museum is proud to announce a collaboration with Dan Ingalls to preserve and host the “Smalltalk Zoo.”
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Apple Lisa: Still More to Uncover - CHM
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CHM's Al Kossow shares his personal story about recovering the Apple Lisa source code.
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What if the most important innovation in tech isn’t what companies make but how they make them? New York Times bestselling author Andrew McAfee will share the elements of what he calls “the Geek Way,” a new corporate culture that’s fast-moving, egalitarian, evidence-driven, and more. Humans...
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CHM welcomes the new VMware Founders Collection, a collection of artifacts and oral history interviews with the innovative Silicon Valley company.
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Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix. Why?
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The Eudora™ Email Client Source Code - CHM
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Electronic mail is one of “killer apps” of networked computing. The ability to quickly send and receive messages without having to be online at the same time created a new form of human communication. By now billions of people have used email.
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