Centre For Computing History


See https://www.qpe-ltd.co.uk/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hartree.
 
Update on Apple's legacy and Seagate disk secrets (9:32 in my video above) from Louis Rossmann:
 

 Posted yesterday sometime:
 

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I got it all wrong. That is not a 1MHz bus, it's the Acorn Tube™ interface. See also What's the TUBE interface of the BBC micro all about? It's a fast FIFO buffer. 


See The Official History of Arm, Sophie Wilson on The Future of Microprocessors, Interview with Sophie Wilson and GPSS.


That interview with Sophie Wilson is just part two of a three-part series. Here are the others:

Part 1

Part 3


What she said (12:55) about being used to building complex systems was interesting ...

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