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by gregalt 2y ago
I talk about his "Series L" tables here and link to scans of them: https://pairdebuggingwithlovelace.hashnode.dev/lovelaces-pro...
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by gregalt 2y ago
Here's a blog series where I get her program running on a modern computer using a simple transliteration to C: https://pairdebuggingwithlovelace.hashnode.dev/
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by gregalt 2y ago
Here's my Mandelbrot set generator written in the table language Ada Lovelace wrote her 1843 program for Babbage's Analytical Engine: https://pairdebuggingwithlovelace.hashnode.dev/ The trickiest part was figuring
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From Punch Cards to Python: Grace Hopper's A-0 compiler paved the way(spectrum.ieee.org)
7 points by gregalt 2y ago|0 comments
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by gregalt 2y ago
I like reading the original paper in it's original format, but here is searchable text version: https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/comphist/48eniac-coding/index...
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A Logical Coding System Applied to the Eniac (1948) [pdf](apps.dtic.mil)
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by gregalt 2y ago
A 1948 report on the conversion of ENIAC from being programmed by a complex wiring of cables and setting switches to the more modern stored program. The writing is accessible, but the introduction and section on test programs are probably m
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by gregalt 2y ago
How hard is it to print to pdf on a PC/laptop and transfer to the remarkable? I used to do that on my ancient Kindle DX, which I remember being a bit clunky, but not too bad with wireless sync. It was nice avoiding stacks and stacks of
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by gregalt 2y ago
Alam Turing used the "hoot" instruction on the Manchester computer in the 1940s to signal different things for debugging https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37507707