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Computers

Welcome to my set of pages about computers.

The pages about computers on this site are:

• A Brief History of Computers in General, and the Personal Computer in Particular
• How Does A Computer Work?
• FORTRAN: A Historical View
• Remembering APL
• A Computer Architecture
• Would a Perfect Computer be Old-Fashioned?
• A Worked Example
• Computer Keyboards
• Keyboard Scan Codes
• About a Computer Language
• Some Architectural Preferences
• A Salute to the Front Panel
• The Punched Card
• Print Train Trivia
• Printing Terminals and Proportional Spacing
• Digital Magnetic Tape Recording
• Reforming ASCII and Unicode
• From the Annunciator to the Nixie Tube

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