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DDJ History of Computing
From Web Years to Mythical Man Months, the world of computing has had decades of revolutionary innovation. Dag Spicer will take a look back at the famous and the sometimes not-so-famous pioneers who took part in the revolution. Mr. Spicer is Curator and Manager of Historical Collections at The Computer Museum History Center in Mountain View, California, home to the world's largest single collectio ...
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Dr. Dobb's | A Personal History of Systems and Computers: Part 1 | August 4, 2008
I became a computer programmer during the 1960s and it happened in a hotel room in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the start of the '60s, no one really knew what a "programmer" was or how to become one. At first, programmers were the engineers who understood the circuits and processors, but it became obvious that if a company wanted to sell computers, the buyer would need a way to program them. By ...
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