Timelines of computer history usually take us back to the early 20th century and no further.
If you think this is an outlandish hypothesis, you don't know your computer history.
Prof Randell's lecture and Coombs's comments meant the computer history books would have to be rewritten.
Over the past decades, he notes, many of the defining technology companies in the computer history have been absorbed.
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The event has grown so large that the firm moved it to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View Calif.
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The Mexican tech companies showcased their products and services at a gathering at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
But that was 20-odd years ago, the ice age of computer history.
"Computer history gets lost very quickly and it can be a very forensic job to piece all the information together, " he said.
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President Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at the Computer History Museum on September 26, 2011 in Mountain View, California.
Potential candidates for the award are the restoration of the PDP 1 at the Computer History Museum or the recreation of Konrad Zuse's Z1.
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The problem for Transmeta is that Intel will not be twiddling its thumbs while mobile wireless appliances relegate the PC to the dustbin of computer history.
While it used to hold its demo day at its own offices, the event has become so popular that it has moved to the Computer History Museum.
After a few wrong turns and days exploring, I pulled up to the Computer History Museum to begin a remarkable day at the Social Innovation Summit.
As a break from these intense meetings many attendees made a trip down to Mountain View in Silicon Valley on Sunday to visit the newly revamped and exciting Computer History Museumwhere a show, Revolutions: The first 2, 000 years of computing, is the main attraction.
He was also a founding contributor to the Computer History Museum History Center in Boston and then was a member of the Computer History Museum (CHM) when most of the artifacts from Boston were moved to Mountain View and combined with local historical equipment, including one of the original RAMACs.
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It was one of the first times in computer game history where gamers could simply connect to their ISP, start a game and choose to play via the Internet from the multiplayer option screen.
Secondly, Apple Computer's history was not a narrative line, but a series of circles in which the company repeated the same victories and disasters over and over.
Included were a high-powered rifle, a laptop computer and books on history, politics and philosophy.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and in history from the University of Michigan.
Hundreds of state troopers, detectives and other law enforcement personnel are analyzing every round of ammunition fired, examining the gunman's medical history and computer use and talking to witnesses, Vance said previously.
The seventy-year history of the computer era to date can be seen as the Gold Rush phase of data.
If your boss is smart, he or she will occasionally sign on to your computer and check your browser history.
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Why does a city and a country which have played such a huge part in the history of the computer, still produce so few world-class technology companies?
My favorite pastimes are online computer gaming and reading about WWII history.
Unfortunately for most health insurance companies other than Aetna, their behavior is reminiscent of DEC, Data General, Wang and a host of once-successful computer makers that are in the dustbin of history.
Lockitron creators Cameron Robertson and Paul Gerhardt were both University of Colorado students -- studying history, economics and finance, and computer science respectively -- when they started playing with inventions.
It was there that his son, Bill Fernandez, and his son's friend, Steve Wozniak, built the Cream Soda computer--the machine that might have changed history had it not shorted out during a presentation to a local reporter.
Intel has a history of being a bellwether for the computer industry in particular, since its chips are used in 80% of all the PCs made globally, and for technology in general since its chips are used in so many other areas of technology.
Callum shared his computer expertise with Theresa showing her how to research the history of the store using the internet.
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