Jason Eckert's Website and Blog

NeXTSTEP is cool

2010-08-16 +

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And it's the UNIX that eventually became macOS and iOS.

The famous Pentium FDIV bug

2009-06-08 +

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I can't think of the Pentium without thinking of this bug ;-)

Anatomy of an AS/400

2009-04-14 +

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The AS/400 was perhaps the most stable and useful system of the early 1990s. Many companies ran their financials (at minimum) on this platform.

IBM hard drive from 1981

2008-05-27 +

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And it makes a wicked coffee table too!

The Nostradamus of UNIX

2008-05-22 +

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Seriously, this book predicted how UNIX would evolve to a tee.

History of game consoles

2008-01-01 +

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This post is all about the game consoles we know and love....and their CPUs!

Roughing it on vacation

2007-07-07 +

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In Muskoka with an old PowerBook, like a luddite.

Linux thin clients

2007-05-05 +

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Older and unusual hardware has a second life as a thin client with Linux!

Computer evolution

2006-01-27 +

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Do theories of evolution apply to computers? Well....

Old Macs never die

2004-08-18 +

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Even after a decade and a half, old Mac computers are still being used at the Ontario Science Centre.

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