Ansible for DevOps: Server and Configuration Management for Humans
by Jeff Geerling · 9 Oct 2015 · 313pp · 75,583 words
, following the basic topics above. A brief history of SSH and remote access In the beginning, computers were the size of large conference rooms. A punch card reader would merrily accept pieces of paper that instructed the computer to do something, and then a printer would etch the results into another piece of
The Nature of Technology
by W. Brian Arthur · 6 Aug 2009 · 297pp · 77,362 words
do domains come into being and subsequently develop? Many, as I said, coalesce around a central technology. As the computer comes into being, supporting technologies—punched card readers, printers, external memory systems, programming languages—begin to gather around it. Others, the grand discipline-based domains in particular, form around families of phenomena and
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil · 14 Jul 2005 · 761pp · 231,902 words
equipment is required, it is not difficult to find or use. The punch cards are somewhat more challenging, but it's still possible to find punch-card readers, and the formats are uncomplicated. By far the most demanding information to retrieve is that contained on the digital disks and tapes. Consider the challenges
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
by Julian Guthrie · 19 Sep 2016
to the early Altair. Their first “computers” relied on punch cards for programming, based on the same mechanical principle as the Jacquard loom, with the punch-card reader converting the perforations into on/off electrical signals, which the computer interpreted as numbers and instruction codes for the calculation. Carrying the punch cards around
Toast
by Stross, Charles · 1 Jan 2002
they could hire teleworkers from India instead of paying guys in suits from Berkhampstead, so they wrote a tty driver just for the weird virtual punched-card reader or whatever the bloody accounting system thought it was working with.” Someone tapped me on my shoulder. I glanced round. “Yo, dude! Gimme five!” “Six
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil · 31 Dec 1998 · 696pp · 143,736 words
each, equivalent to about 175,000 bits. A number could be retrieved from any location, modified, and stored in any other location. It had a punched-card reader and even included a printer, even though it would be another half century before either typesetting machines or typewriters were to be invented. It had
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff · 1 Jan 2005 · 394pp · 108,215 words
the slow speed of getting data into and out of his machine, Von Neumann had persuaded IBM’s founder, Tom Watson Sr., to donate a punch-card reader to help speed up the process. Since he was one of the few people who knew how card readers worked, Crane was enlisted in the
The Man Who Invented the Computer
by Jane Smiley · 18 Oct 2010 · 253pp · 80,074 words
adjustments for controlling the calculation of functions; 24 sets of switches for entering numerical constants; 2 paper tape readers for entering additional constants; a standard punched card reader; 12 temporary storage units; 5 units each—add/subtract, multiply, divide; various permanent function tables (e.g. sine, cosine, etc.); accumulators; and printing and card
A People’s History of Computing in the United States
by Joy Lisi Rankin
time-sharing.93 In fact, the 225 / 235 manual also included manuals for the peripheral equipment that Dartmouth would be using with the computer: a punched-card reader, a “mass random access data storage system” that used magnetic discs, a high- speed printer, and a magnetic tape subsystem.94 The Dartmouth team needed
If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore · 14 Sep 2020 · 467pp · 149,632 words
shoes jerk suddenly. Georgia watches as the dentist begins to pull a tooth and—just as Freesmith removes the last of the cards from the punch-card reader—“the dentist stepped away from the woman and a burr in his hand glistened with bright red blood.”45 You can almost hear Burdick hollering
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
by Bhu Srinivasan · 25 Sep 2017 · 801pp · 209,348 words