Posts Tagged ‘IBM’
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Steve Jobs death on October 5th 2011 was followed by a remarkable number of tributes and reflections on the impact the company he founded has had on the world. Many of these tributes summarise the effect as a visionary disruption. Here I describe from my own perspective some of the disruptions to chemistry I experienced (for another commentary, see here).
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Tags:Apple, by-product, chemical abstracts, disruptive technologies, Historical, IBM, laser printer, Macintosh, nice chemical diagrams, online activities, online search, Samuel Butler, Steve Jobs, Tutorial material, United Kingdom
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
As a personal retrospective of my use of computers (in chemistry), the Macintosh plays a subtle role. (more…)
Tags:Apple computer, Appletalk, Australia, chemical, copy-editor, ethernet, Eudora, Fibre optic, GBP, hand-drawn chemical diagrams, Historical, IBM, laser printer, Mac OS X, Macintosh, megabit network, mouse pointing device, multigate routers, operating system, Pirelli, Pittsburgh, proper network, Royal Society of Chemistry, stereographics device, telephone negotiation, Tim Berners-Lee, Webster multigate routers, XML
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Computers and I go back a while (44 years to be precise), and it struck me (with some horror) that I have been around them for ~62% of the modern computing era (Babbage notwithstanding, ~1940 is normally taken as the start of the modern computing era). So indulge me whilst I record this perspective from the viewpoint of the computers I have used over this 62% of the computing era. (more…)
Tags:chemical shifts, chemistry department computer network, controller, director, fancy phototypesetter, Fortran, GBP, Guggenheim, Historical, IBM, ICT, Imperial College, Joana, London Computing Centre, Michael Dewar, obviously enlightened teacher, Paul Weiner, Peter Murray-Rust, programmer, steady state chemical kinetics, Tektronix, Texas, University of London, University of London Computing Centre, Wimbledon, word processor
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