Sean HaasVectrex on Launch DayThe Vectrex was a unique and impressive console. It differentiated itself from other home offerings of the time by using vector graphics…Apr 8, 2020Apr 8, 2020
Sean HaasOther Predictions from Vannevar BushFirst published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1945, As We May Think is often cited as a watershed moment in computer history. In this essay…Mar 25, 2020Mar 25, 2020
Sean HaasHard Sectoring in Early Floppy DisksThe floppy disk has changed very little since it’s original development way back at IBM in the late 1960s. That being said there have been…Mar 11, 2020Mar 11, 2020
Sean HaasArtifacts of FORTRANIn November of 1954 the first preliminary design of FORTRAN was completed. Over the next few years a compiler was built and distributed…Feb 12, 2020Feb 12, 2020
Sean HaasThe BBC Domesday Gallery: CGI in 1986The BBC Domesday Project, completed in 1986, is a lot of things. Broken up into two LaserDiscs is a massive volunteer-collected survey of…Nov 21, 2019Nov 21, 2019
Sean HaasHow Capable was the Intel 4004?The Intel 4004 was the first commercial microprocessor. There is a lot that can be said about this achievement, but what exactly was the…Nov 7, 2019Nov 7, 2019
Sean HaasSelling the Altair 8800The rise of the MITS Altair 8800, and it’s connection to Microsoft, has one key event: the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. This…Sep 11, 2019Sep 11, 2019
Sean HaasEarly Networking in AmericaThere isn’t such a thing as a single event we can point to as the “birth of the internet”, but we do get close to an event like that…Aug 14, 2019Aug 14, 2019
