Leakage from a Cluttered Mind

2 Terabytes

My two new 1 TB disk drives arrived today, delivered by the postman and left on my front porch. While they are really nothing special (larger drives are readily available), I am in awe of the technology that can store a million megabytes in a device that basically fits in the palm […]

While I’m remembering things from 40 years ago I thought I’d write a little more about working on the PDP-1 computer. While debugging the mouse interface I wrote about previously, I added a small enhancement to the light pen. The original light pen simply set a hardware flag when the pen detected light as the […]