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thewayneGordon Bell passed away. He was an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation and a key creator of the PDP-1 mini-computer, which launched an amazing series of computers. He also was the "namesake of the ACM's prestigious Gordon Bell Prize, created to spur innovations in parallel processing"
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Robert Denard was quite a clever bloke. He figured out how to pair a transistor with a capacitor to store a bit of rewriteable memory.
Prior to Denard's discovery, memory was stored in magnetic cores. It was a bulky and balky process that was pretty low density. What Denard did pioneered the development of the internet in our pockets.
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Robert Denard was quite a clever bloke. He figured out how to pair a transistor with a capacitor to store a bit of rewriteable memory.
Prior to Denard's discovery, memory was stored in magnetic cores. It was a bulky and balky process that was pretty low density. What Denard did pioneered the development of the internet in our pockets.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/robert-dennard-father-of-dram-is-deceased-also-known-for-his-foundational-dennard-scaling-theory
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Date: 2024-05-28 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-28 01:47 am (UTC)My first computer-related job was at a game company and their main computer was a Raytheon that had magnetic core memory. This was around '84. It was pretty trippy. Punched tape for loading programs and saving data.
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Date: 2024-05-31 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-31 11:38 pm (UTC)Very much so. Hard to imagine anything remotely like what we have today without them.