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IBM and UNIVAC in the Apollo Program

IBM and UNIVAC were the key system integrators for the Apollo program. IBM provided broad computer support on a number of fronts including guidance systems on the Saturn V vehicle itself, whereas UNIVAC's computers were critical to the Deep Space Tracking Network DSTN required for upstream and downstream telemetry to...

Tags: IBM Corp., Productivity, IBM. UNIVAC, NASA, Apollo, Jason Perlow

Image galleries 2009-07-13

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DSTN Station at Perth, Australia (IBM and UNIVAC in the Apollo Program)

DSTN Station at Perth, Australia IBM and UNIVAC in the Apollo ProgramRadio Telescope... is at Parkes not Perth

Tags: Perth, Univac, Apollo, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

News to know: Office 2010; Dell; Moon tech; Apple; Software buyer's bill of rights

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Office 2010 makes splashy debut Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to deliver tech preview build of Office 2010...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Digital Camera, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Digital Cameras, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-14

To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Boeing Co., S-IC, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-10

To the Moon: How we built the technologies

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further...

Tags: Radio, Satellite, Exploration, John F. Kennedy, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Marketing, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Is the world now an open source society?

Is the world now an open source society?The world of computing started as open sourceClosed source only came around when companies started earning money and wanted to guard secrets. Of course profit is what drives capitalism but there are places where open source is of a greater benefit to...

Tags: open source, open source society

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...

Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-06

The Open Source Commandments

Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...

Tags: Jason Perlow, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Operating Systems, Pharaoh Rameses, Software, UNIX

Blog posts 2008-04-09

More EDS issues over botched IT project in UK

More EDS issues over botched IT project in UKMore EDS issues over botched IT project in UKThis is not the first catastrophe we've had in UK. The list of late and failed Government projects is very long indeed. There's also the small(!) matter of cost overruns, equipment failures and incompatibility...

Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2008-02-07

Sun, MySQL and the return of integrated solutions

I just read the announcement that Sun has acquired MySQL for $1 Billion. Rather than just citing the facts and wishing that I was one of the founders of MySQL so that I could purchase that dream home in Florida, I'd like to consider what's really going on rather than...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Uptime Institute: Long live the datacenter (thanks to an unethical Salesforce.com)

Earlier this week, I attended a panel discussion that was primarily hosted by AMD but included panelists from HP, EMC, and APC and was moderated by Uptime Institute's chief analyst Bruce Taylor. The Uptime Institute earns its keep by playing host to the community of people and technologists with an...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Service Provider, Uptime, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-08-17

Dell still trying to figure out what customers want

Dell still trying to figure out what customers wantIncurring the wrath of RedmondThere are very complex legal relationships between Microsoft and OEMs which allow hardware manufacturers to ship pre-installed Windows.Try to buy a PC WITHOUT Windows from HP, Dell, Gateway etc. I think there is a small print in...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Dell Computer Corp., Linux, hardware, PC, computer

Discussion threads 2007-03-13

Does the planet need only five computers?

Does the planet need only five computers?take a holiday....these people need to get more time off. They're living in dreamland already. I wouldn't trust IBM with my projects and data now, never mind anyone ''larger''.Refactoring...Before anyone goes crazy about the lack of IT jobs this could mean...I've worked at a...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, Desktops, computer, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-08

Freescale goes to market with magnetic memory

Freescale goes to market with magnetic memoryDaja Vu.. its the 1960's and 70's all over again !!!Big deal. I was using magnetic core in the 70'sI guess nobody remembers magnetic core memory. The good old days when 4K of memory was the size of a refrigerator, LOL.That is a...

Tags: Freescale, memory, core memory

Discussion threads 2006-07-10

How to gain competitive advantage from IT

How to gain competitive advantage from ITNice, butthere's one thing I do miss:You don't talk about the willingness of an induvidual, being a company entity or a real person, to learn and develop him/herself as in growing up from newborn to adult. I think that's another reason why some companies...

Tags: Operating systems, Strategy, competitive advantage, inertia, Unix, information technology

Discussion threads 2006-05-23

Mix '06: Gates ready to embrace and extend

Mix '06: Gates ready to embrace and extendCompetitionYes, MS would not be able to boast about "Microsoft has done more to bring software prices down than any other company" without competition.I like how this is worded so that it sounds like it was thier idea and ultimate goal. Their...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., software, open source

Discussion threads 2006-03-21

Images: Birth of the first computer

Images: Birth of the first computerSee also other reference about the subjectReference; http://www.dotcalmcomputing.com/history.htmThe Vacuum TubeABC 1939 - the first digital computer was designed by John Astanasoff. Z3 1941 - invented by German engineer Konrad Zuse to design airplanes and missiles. Colossus 1943 - was developed by the British to...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-03-03

Hippies shaped the PC revolution

Hippies shaped the PC revolution...and corporatistas UNshaping itHope you enjoyed personal computing.It thrived when driven by folx spending their own money on OS,s, apps and hardware.OS purchases are now mostly a proxy-via-oem purchasing decision...as ANY choice still exists.Application repurchases are no longer driven by positive advancement of usable features...but by...

Tags: Desktops, OS purchase, hippy, PC

Discussion threads 2005-05-13

IBM sells PC group to Lenovo

IBM sells PC group to LenovoWoo-hooI'm astonished. I think it might be the first time a Chineese company actually bought someone's Intellectual property instead of just stealing it.historic paradigm shiftThis is unprecendented for a company in China to buy a major US name brand so that it can sell goods...

Tags: Linux, Desktops, Notebooks, IBM ThinkPad, QA, PC, IBM Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd., Chinese company

Discussion threads 2004-12-07