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Tom Lyon ✅

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

Tom Lyon ✅

5 авг., 00:21

Did someone say bubble? https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-house-of-ellison-is-on-the-brink

The House of Ellison is on the BrinkEverything the world’s briefly richest man built is failing at oncewww.notesfromthecircus.com

Tom Lyon ✅

2 авг., 19:12

OTD 1972: IBM announces the System 370 models 158 and 168 - first with virtual memory.

Tom Lyon ✅

1 авг., 06:26

Datamation, April 1970. The 360/195 was the fastest IBM machine at the time.

Tom Lyon ✅

1 авг., 02:47

When the void follows you, you'd better follow back.

Tom Lyon ✅

29 июл., 00:16

From my grandfather's photos: "1920 Cavalryman - Fully Equipped"

Tom Lyon ✅

28 июл., 22:11

VCF West this weekend. I'll be haunting the halls, probably both days. Who's coming? https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF West_**Saturday,**_ **August 1,** 2026, 10:00-6:00PM (Pacific Time) _**Sunday,** _**August 2** , 2026, 9:00-5:00PM (Pacific Time) **WHERE:**Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA TICKETS! | Exhibitor and Vendor Layout | Directions ---|---|--- Exhibits and Vendors | Schedule | Talks | VCF After Dark | Program Book Volunteer Registration | Consignment | Food | Lodging | Videos & Podcasts | Photos | Articles | | **Sponsors:** | | ---|---|--- **_Contacts:_**vcfwest@vcfed.org ###### _Updated July 21, 2026._vcfed.org

Tom Lyon ✅

24 июл., 16:41

OTD 1992: Sun Labs vs SunSoft water war. Epic nonsense! #SunMicrosystems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q851fnC4io

Tom Lyon ✅

21 июл., 19:47

It seemed pretty good at the time! Abysmal MTTF performance for the IBM 360/91 at Princeton in the 74/75 school year. From a Computer Center newsletter. The general improvement trend in software MTTF is as they matured from the conversion from HASP to LASP just before these metrics.

Tom Lyon ✅

17 июл., 01:52

University of Texas Computation Center with a CDC 1604 and 160. From a general brochure, 1961/2. Later they had CDC 6600 and 6400.

Tom Lyon ✅

14 июл., 04:29

OTD 1983: Toronto USENIX conference! https://www.krsaborio.net/unix/research/1983/0713.htm

Tom Lyon ✅

12 июл., 03:33

I got your Open Source Operating System right here. (1959) SHARE Operating System for the IBM 709/7090/7094: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vrlJOfXNxxE3Ik_a3SZfj2rEb9hV9qru/view?usp=sharing

Tom Lyon ✅

8 июл., 03:31

Found an old recipe book from Marfa, TX among my aunt's old things. Some things are best left undisturbed.

Tom Lyon ✅

6 июл., 20:28

OTD 1982: Boston #USENIX conference. First "trade show" for #SunMicrosystems. https://www.krsaborio.net/unix/research/1982/0706.htm

Tom Lyon ✅

6 июл., 20:22

OTD 1995: Legato Systems goes public. Founded by brother Bob and other folks from Sun. Red Herring: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KWCzF5phK5vi6gUSKJ83eFyy25ofqS_j/view?usp=sharing

Tom Lyon ✅

2 июл., 18:33

OTD 1959: Fire destroys Pentagon data center. Data center design & safety got a lot more serious after that.

Tom Lyon ✅

2 июл., 18:28

Way cool. https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/06/for-americas-250th-we-created-commemorative-stamps-of-trojan-builders/

Tom Lyon ✅

1 июл., 16:41

OTD 1956: Burroughs acquires Electrodata, the southern California developers of the later B5000 series. Blog about the development of the Electrodata/Burroughs 205 and 220 machines: https://datatron.blogspot.com/2018/02/introducing-burroughs-220.html

Tom Lyon ✅

30 июн., 19:57

OTD 1970: IBM System/370 announced. The main reason for the bump from System/360 to System/370 was the use of IC memory instead of core. Virtual memory features took another 2 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370

Tom Lyon ✅

30 июн., 19:53

OTD 1945: von Neumann's EDVAC report published. The beginning of modern computer architecture. https://web.mit.edu/sts.035/www/PDFs/edvac.pdf

Tom Lyon ✅

27 июн., 04:38

Name that programming language! (Wrong answers appreciated!) Hint: "Personal" computer, circa 1963.

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