http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/ 2012-03-17T19:50:58-07:00 http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/ http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2007-09-19T05:57:45-07:00 http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/doku.php?id=edsac&rev=1190206665 EDSAC One of the first Stored Program computers... programs stored on 5-hole punched tape and output was via a teleprinter. It was also the first to imagine the idea of a library of subroutines, literally a cabinet full of punched tapes that could be taped together and fed into the machine as needed text/html 2007-09-19T06:10:05-07:00 http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/doku.php?id=emacs&rev=1190207405 Two views of the Space Cadet keyboard. Originally in use for the Symbolics machines (LISP Machines) at MIT and the spinoff startup Symbolics. EMACS would have been the primary programming tool used on this keyboard. back to interface text/html 2007-09-24T06:24:15-07:00 http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/doku.php?id=games&rev=1190640255 Ultima Online screenshots 1997 Confessions of a Gold Farmer with a nice picture of an obsessive hardware set-up. Everquest screenshots text/html 2007-09-19T06:10:44-07:00 http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/doku.php?id=interface&rev=1190207444 Some questions to answer, or at least ponder, by the end of class: * Why do computers need interfaces? What exactly is the nature of the “communication” that is happening between humans and computers * Do interfaces change the way we conceive of the functions of our tools and devices-- does the interface to a bicycle change the way we ride bikes; does the interface to a word processor change the way we write? text/html 2007-09-17T06:38:30-07:00 http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/doku.php?id=menu1&rev=1190036310 Syllabus PDF Version text/html 2007-09-19T06:36:17-07:00 http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/doku.php?id=msword&rev=1190208977 The surprisingly excellent Wikipedia entry. Some choice quotes from Matthew Fuller's analysis of Word c. 2001: "Since its early versions Word has swollen like a drowned and drifting cow." "Equally an application, especially one intent on sucking all potential functions towards it, can be interrogated on the basis of those functions which are absent from it. For instance, which models of 'work' have informed Word to the extent that the types of text management that it encompass… text/html 2007-09-17T06:34:13-07:00 http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/doku.php?id=print_version&rev=1190036053 PDF version (does not contain the schedule) text/html 2007-12-04T17:48:12-07:00 http://kelty.org/or/classes/189v/doku.php?id=syllabus&rev=1196819292 Fall 2007, Harvard Department of History of Science Room: History of Science (Science Center) 469 Instructor: Christopher Kelty Description: 20th century history of the differentiation of hardware and software and the rise of networked, distributed forms of computing. Topics may include: mathematical precursors to programming languages, language and automata theory, history of computer science; development of key ideas and technologies in operating systems, networking, personal computing; ge…