In my final year of Computer Science I had several class projects. Drawing on my experience from working at several Earls Restaurant (16thave and Southport, Calgary) the class projects were […]
Earls Restaurant Ordering System and Simulation (1992)
Internet Connected Devices
One of the things that I need to start doing is documenting the wireless devices that I have at home and how to access them. Many of them have Telnet […]
WebCam – vStarCam C7824WIP HD
VStarcam C7824WIP HD ($50USD) The VStarcam C7824WIP HD looked to be interesting. However, seems to be lacking in a few categories including the picture quality which is blurry and also seems […]
Vintage Computer Magazines and Non-Academic Bibliographical Databases
One of the things that would be useful would be the archiving of vintage computer magazines in the format of bibliographical databases. This would allow the following: a) search the […]
Travels of Z
If I was to write a travel book in the style of Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux, I would probably call it “Travels of Z” and write about all […]
Visualization Wall at the University of Calgary (TFDL)
The Visualization Studio at the University of Calgary has a VisWall with 34.5 million pixels for a resolution of 9600×3600. It is 16 feet by 6 feet. The following are […]
CCHS Tableau – Beta1
EpiComics
The story of Epi Comics starts while talking to some classmates about whether they were going to be going to the comic book convention. They said they weren’t sure, so […]
Clinical Workstations, COWs and Thin Clients
Looking back at the 1990s and seeing how computers were established in the clinical environment is an interesting story of the adoption of technology. IBM 7690 (1991)The IBM 7690 is […]