Monday, June 21, 2010

The History of the Thinkpad 700T (Tablet)



Howard Dulany walks us through the genesis of the original ThinkPad tablet, the ThinkPad 700T.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo



From the Author: "This modem was given to me ~1989 by the widow of a retired (IBM?) engineer. Computerhistory.org has a Model B dated 1965, and I've seen a ~1967 Model C written up in a magazine. (Interestingly, incorrectly identified as being only 110 baud.)

Even better than seeing it in a museum, I decide to hook the trusty Model A up and make it talk to something. After some trial and error, I manage to get it to talk to a terminal server at work and use it to connect to a linux box. It's ALIVE! So, 45 years after it's creation, this antique modem gets to send data to and from the modern Internet.
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