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My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?)

By Lars Poulsen on Fri Nov 6 18:37:44 2026

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Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, November 14, 2026

By RobertB on Sun Nov 8 01:14:29 2026

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Emacs Turns 50

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thu Oct 29 04:56:45 2026

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Re: Tape Drives

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Fri Nov 6 06:18:48 2026

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Re: ?The end of software secrecy is almost upon us?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sat Oct 24 03:39:07 2026

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Re: ?The end of software secrecy is almost upon

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tue Oct 20 20:00:03 2026

Latest reply by boltar on Fri Nov 6 16:39:45 2026
An AI view of datacenters

By Peter Flass on Fri Nov 6 07:53:13 2026

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So, I have returned to the fold.

By Dave Shevett on Mon Oct 26 02:59:31 2026

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Re: Emacs Turns 50, gpl is still a bad idea

By John Levine on Fri Oct 30 17:49:16 2026

Latest reply by Nuno Silva on Wed Nov 4 15:12:00 2026
Re: The end of software secrecy is almost upon

By Rosario19 on Mon Nov 2 10:54:42 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Nov 2 20:06:53 2026
Re: Structured Programming (was Re: ?The end of software secrecy is alm

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sun Nov 1 23:38:32 2026

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Re: Whilst All The Computer Experts are Visiting r.a.sf.w.

By Nuno Silva on Sat Oct 31 11:40:54 2026

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POSIX system() function (was: The end of software secrecy ...)

By Geoff Clare on Thu Oct 29 14:26:52 2026

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Re: what's a process, was The end of software secrecy is almost upon

By John Levine on Sun Oct 25 18:17:44 2026

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Re: ?This Is Not a Drill?: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Oct 26 22:34:23 2026

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Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Oct 26 22:13:56 2026

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Re: DEC's Conversational Programming Language CPL

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Oct 26 22:07:42 2026

Latest reply by Peter Flass on Tue Oct 27 09:37:11 2026
Threads and processes (Re: ?The end of software secrecy is almost upon)

By Lars Poulsen on Mon Oct 26 19:14:57 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tue Oct 27 06:08:59 2026
Threads and processes (was: Re: "The end of software secrecy is almost

By Nuno Silva on Sun Oct 25 23:48:24 2026

Latest reply by Nuno Silva on Sun Oct 25 23:48:24 2026
Re: ?The end of software secrecy is almost upon us"

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wed Oct 14 23:02:38 2026

Latest reply by Chris M. Thomasson on Sun Oct 25 14:36:44 2026
Photos and mini-videos from Bay Area + Rocklin Maker Faires

By RobertB on Thu Oct 22 00:27:02 2026

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Re: "The end of software secrecy is almost upon us"

By Dan Cross on Mon Oct 19 02:03:47 2026

Latest reply by Scott Lurndal on Tue Oct 20 14:16:57 2026
News from The National Museum of Computing

By David LaRue on Fri Oct 16 13:33:09 2026

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Cycle times of IBM mainframes in the mid-1970s

By James Dow Allen on Sun Oct 11 11:47:25 2026

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Harvest time!

By David Lesher on Thu Oct 1 02:06:08 2026

Latest reply by Waldek Hebisch on Wed Oct 7 17:31:27 2026
origin of XGP fonts (was Re: reprints of old AI memos)

By Kragen Javier Sitaker on Mon Sep 28 10:44:18 2026

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Classic computers at the Maker Faire Rocklin 2026

By RobertB on Sun Sep 27 07:17:35 2026

Latest reply by RobertB on Sun Sep 27 07:17:35 2026
Dinner with John Levine

By Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson on Wed Sep 23 02:01:34 2026

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Re: XML in Pythong

By Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson on Fri Sep 25 23:21:31 2026

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Classic computers at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2026

By RobertB on Sat Sep 19 05:40:48 2026

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Re: Usent history (was Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum t

By Tapiro Ubriaco on Mon Sep 21 09:31:53 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thu Sep 24 23:30:15 2026
What does this do on a 68K-based Mac?

By sean on Tue Sep 22 23:28:01 2026

Latest reply by John Ames on Wed Sep 23 08:27:54 2026
Re: position-independent code (was Re: CMS, Self-hosting and the 6502)

By Lynn Wheeler on Sat Sep 12 15:12:56 2026

Latest reply by Charlie Gibbs on Fri Sep 18 20:35:39 2026
Re: Question re postscript and pdf

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sat Sep 12 02:21:10 2026

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Computes at CERN (Re: history of ASCII and IBM ratfucking, and the VAX

By Lars Poulsen on Sun Sep 13 14:56:20 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tue Sep 15 23:22:24 2026
Re: history of ASCII and IBM ratfucking, and the VAX (was Re: CMS, Self

By Jeroen Belleman on Fri Sep 11 19:41:53 2026

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Re: segments and architectural experimentation (was Re: segments, was S

By David Schultz on Fri Sep 11 13:06:38 2026

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Re: Usenet-Rewind: search engine for Usenet messages back to 1981

By Daniel on Sun Sep 13 11:06:56 2026

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