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History of Electronic Computers, Part 1: Prologue

Other articles in the cycle: History of the relay The method of "rapid transmission of information", or the birth of the relay Long-ranger Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay The talking telegraph Simply connect The forgotten generation of relay computers The electronic era The history of electronic computers Prologue ENIAC Colossus The electronic revolution The history of the transistor darkness From the crucible of war Repeated reinvention The history of the Internet The backbone […]

History of Electronic Computers, Part 4: The Electronic Revolution

Other articles in the cycle: History of the relay The method of "rapid transmission of information", or the birth of the relay Long-ranger Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay The talking telegraph Simply connect The forgotten generation of relay computers The electronic era The history of electronic computers Prologue ENIAC Colossus The electronic revolution The history of the transistor darkness From the crucible of war Repeated reinvention The history of the Internet The backbone […]

Relay history: electronic era

Other articles in the cycle: History of the relay The method of "rapid transmission of information", or the birth of the relay Long-ranger Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay The talking telegraph Simply connect The forgotten generation of relay computers The electronic era The history of electronic computers Prologue ENIAC Colossus The electronic revolution The history of the transistor darkness From the crucible of war Repeated reinvention The history of the Internet The backbone […]

History of Electronic Computers, Part 3: ENIAC

Other articles in the cycle: History of the relay The method of "rapid transmission of information", or the birth of the relay Long-ranger Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay The talking telegraph Simply connect The forgotten generation of relay computers The electronic era The history of electronic computers Prologue ENIAC Colossus The electronic revolution The history of the transistor darkness From the crucible of war Repeated reinvention The history of the Internet The backbone […]

The Forgotten Generation of Relay Computers

Our previous article described the rise of automatic telephone switches, which were controlled using relay circuits. This time we want to talk about how scientists and engineers developed relay circuits in the first - now forgotten - generation of digital computers. Relay at its zenith If you remember, the operation of a relay is based on a simple principle: an electromagnet operates a metal switch. […]

History of Electronic Computers, Part 2: Colossus

Other articles in the cycle: History of the relay The method of "rapid transmission of information", or the birth of the relay Long-ranger Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay The talking telegraph Simply connect The forgotten generation of relay computers The electronic era The history of electronic computers Prologue ENIAC Colossus The electronic revolution The history of the transistor darkness From the crucible of war Repeated reinvention The history of the Internet The backbone […]

Offshore for IT business in Georgia: life hacks and pitfalls

Singapore, Cyprus, China, Holland are the countries that first come to mind when it comes to offshores for IT companies. But in this article I will talk about a country that borders Russia and offers, surprisingly, very tempting conditions for startup companies in the field of information technology. Tested for yourself! Let's go? Gamarjoba, genatsvale! The need to open my own IT company was caused [...]

Basics of working with zmq in python, creating a simple key/value store

Introduction Let's look at an example of a simple key/value storage, such as memcache. It is designed simply - the data is stored in memory, in a hashmap structure. They are accessed via a tcp socket. In Python, hashmap is a regular dict. For access we will use zeromq. Setup To install this package on debian/ubuntu, just enter sudo apt-get install libzmq-dev sudo […]

Rating of popularity of programming languages ​​and DBMS in 2019

TIOBE has published a ranking of the popularity of programming languages ​​for 2019. The leaders remain Java, C, Python and C++. Compared to the edition of the rating published a year ago, the ratings of C# (from 7 to 5), Swift (from 15 to 9), Ruby (from 18 to 11), Go (from 16 to 14) and D (from 25 to 17) have increased. XNUMX). Decrease […]

Habra-analysis: when is the best time to publish your post?

You go to Habr more than once a day, right? Not to read something useful, but just to scroll through the main page in search of “what to add to the list to read later”? Ever noticed that posts published in the middle of the night get fewer views and ratings than those published during the day? What can you say about publications that appeared in the middle of the weekend? When I published the previous […]

In the ranks of the PlayStation replenishment: a leading employee of Dell and Microsoft will take care of Sony's business

Former Dell Technologies and Microsoft employee Veronica Rogers has joined PlayStation as senior vice president of business operations. The new appointment is part of Sony Interactive Entertainment's reorganization from its previous regional structure into a single global system. Rogers will report to the company's President and CEO Jim Ryan. Veronica Rogers will lead the exit strategy […]

ADATA introduced the first gaming monitors and laptops under the XPG brand

ADATA, as promised, presented a number of completely new products under its XPG brand at CES 2020. For the first time, the brand’s assortment included monitors, laptops and compact desktop computers (we have already written about them), and all of them are aimed primarily at fans of computer games. The XPG Photon monitor is built on a 27-inch IPS panel with […]