https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/08/a-street-should-be-named-for-d/ Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:47:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/08/a-street-should-be-named-for-d/#comment-1555 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:47:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/08/a-street-should-be-named-for-d/#comment-1555 OK, OK, so it is not my computer, I admit it.But it is funny you should mention it. I’m writing a post on this particular computer as we speak. Stay tuned!(Oh, yes, it is a computer, not a switchboard!)

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/08/a-street-should-be-named-for-d/#comment-1554 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:25:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/08/a-street-should-be-named-for-d/#comment-1554 “To me that picture looks more like a telephone switching center. While bits of it may be a computer, most of it would be I/O cards.”Well of course back in days when computers filled whole rooms they did resemble telephone exchanges. It was no happenstance that the engineers who worked on the first computers in the UK were part of the Post Office, which at the time was responsible for the UK telephone system.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/08/a-street-should-be-named-for-d/#comment-1553 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:16:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/08/a-street-should-be-named-for-d/#comment-1553 To me that picture looks more like a telephone switching center. While bits of it may be a computer, most of it would be I/O cards.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/08/a-street-should-be-named-for-d/#comment-1552 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:29:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/08/a-street-should-be-named-for-d/#comment-1552 I had to click just to see in which city, not which street needs to be renamed….

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