Game Over – IBM Big Blue vs Kasparov (2003) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Over:_Kasparov_and_the_Machine Darpa Grand Challenge – Self Driving Cars (Nova 2006) PBS Nova documentary about the Darpa Grand Challenge.  It’s interesting to […]

How close are we to virtualization of a person? The technology developed over the past 1-2 years is really impressive. Step 1 – Scan in a Person.  One company that […]

Looking back at the year, I was thinking what software and hardware have I been the most happy with.   Hardware: Apple MacBook Pro 13″ (2009 and 2010) – I have […]

The following are Java related items in the collection. It includes Java hardware, Java Development IDEs, Java commercial packaged software, and Promotional Items. Java Hardware JavaStation-1 (1996-2000) Was a Network […]

Several years ago I bought a Microsoft Kinect to experiment what it could do and how it could be applied to some of my work.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have a […]

Some suggestions for future topics for the Retro Computing Roundtable (http://rcrpodcast.com) podcast. Hardware Emulators Amiga – hardware emulations for IBM and Macintosh Atari – hardware emulations for Macintosh Sun – hardware emulations for […]

Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD), is a class of parallel computers in Flynn’s taxonomy. It describes computers with multiple processing elements that perform the same operation on multiple data points […]

TenClipsTenClips is a Windows tool that allows you to have multiple cut and paste items in various buffers.  Press Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-0 to change the BufferUse Crtl-C and Crtl-V as […]

I was recently given a stack of old University of Calgary computer newsletters.  At one point of time Academic Computer Services produced “The Big Byte” and the “Micro Byte”.  They […]

One of the things that is interesting about the home vintage computers is how there were these vinyl dust covers made for them.  This is something that has been lost […]