Paper tape wasn’t just for computers. They ran CNC machines, typesetters, and even taught Morse code. Posted in Retrocomputing Tagged Chernobyl, Chornobyl, tape reader. Post navigation.

Courtesy Computer History Museum . Wang’s first general-purpose computer was the Wang 2200, although, as John A. N. Lee writes in the International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers, the ...

In this age of smartphone zombification, it's hard to believe that there was once a time when most people had never seen or touched a computer. When I grew up in the 1970s, we didn't have a ...

After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer, [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric far… ...

This issue of Security Systems News, perhaps like no issue before it, is consumed with IP, IT, and the changing course of the industry. Splayed out on the front page is Cisco's entry into our somewhat ...

SEATTLE — Thanks to Microsoft’s new alliance with Wang Laboratories, computer users soon will be able to edit and manipulate faxes or scanned images without buying separate software. Th… ...

Each year, Marta Magnus and Pat Colgan, Art teachers at the Wang Elementary School in Lowell, have students create projects using packaging tape. The project’s objectives are for students to ...

Xiao Wang, assistant professor of computer science, won a Distinguished Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), held in ...

In the age of AI, people might wonder if there’s anything computers can’t do. The answer is yes. In fact, there are numerous problems that are beyond the reach of even the most powerful computers.

In the latest work led by Wang Chao, of Shanghai University, the team said it used a quantum computer produced by Canada’s D-Wave Systems to successfully breach cryptographic algorithms.