last modified: 07/06/2018
The Backyard Shed
The Backyard Shed
Recollections on hobby computing and stuff from a group of friends.
Chnange Log
07/06/18: just getting started.
Update for July 6, 2018
Something cool to try #1 (ScottH)
Go get an account on the SDF Public Access
UNIX System.
www.sdf.org ...
It's pretty great. While I grew up in Texas, I didn't know of this
BBS, which had an early connection to the Internet. Really something in its
day. And even now it does email, chat, bulletin board , web access and web
hosting. A really cool not-for-profit... Did I mention Gopher and a C
compiler ? :) Quite a few hams on-board. And they hold a net on
Sunday Nights. Send me a test message to kd5njr@gmail.com and we'll set
up a sked to chat on-line.
aside: fortunately, I got to play with the Texas Higher Education Network.
www.tenet.edu back when I was in high school.
Random Thoughts #1: (ScottH)
modified last July 6, 2018
List of Important (Computer) Books
... to me atleast ...
- My Computer Likes Me...
I remember buying an old, sun-faded copy of this book, or a similar title,
from my local Radio Shack franchise store in the 1980s.
- My First BASIC Program by Rodnay Zaks...
- Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest Mimms
You remember this one. Green cover. Clear explanations. Hand lettering
grid paper. Schematics I used to get things started even in college.
I've worn out a couple copies of this book.
- Soul of a New Machine
I skimmed this book in High School, but actually read it (well enough to
write 'blue book' essays over it) for my History of American Technology
course at Texas A&M. Are you a Hardy Boy or a Microkid ? A book that
definately steered me toward Computer Engineering
- Where Wizards Stayed
Up Late
Flashback #1: BOOK
My Computer Likes Me ...
... an early example of a how-to book on computing.
If you've read Steven Levy's Hackers, you'll remember the part when the
computer moved from government, business and academia to more regular
folks, ya know, hackers, hippies and the like ! ;)
TIMELINE
-1950s-
-1960s-
-1970s-
-1980s-
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The IBM Personal Computer
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The TRS-80 Color Computer 2
-1990s-
-2000s-
-2010s-
COLLECTION OF LINKS
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp