A trip down memory lane
A two-fer.
First - Windows NT will turn twenty tomorrow.
From Mary Jo Foley at
ZD Net:
Microsoft's Windows NT turns 20
Twenty years ago tomorrow, July 27, Microsoft launched Windows NT, as Mark Morowczynski of Microsoft's "Ask Premier Field Engineering blog" reminded me this week.
NT's not ancient history, in spite of its age. The NT "core" is what's inside Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Phone 8, Windows Azure and the Xbox One.
In 1993, Microsoft launched Windows NT 3.1. It was followed up by NT 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0. Microsoft's Windows releases still rely on NT-inspired numbering conventions. Windows 7's build numbers commenced with 6.1; Windows 8's with 6.2; and Windows 8.1 with 6.3.
I ran it for a long time -- still have my distribution disks and updates. It was the first true multi-tasking OS from MSFT.
Second - Instrument Nostalgia
Chemist Derek Lowe
muses about old scientific instruments that he has used.
Instrument Nostalgia
Andre the Chemist is talking Lab Instrument Nostalgia at his blog. I know what he means, but mostly, when I think of old equipment, I'm just glad that I'm not using it any more. I remember, for example, the JEOL NMR machines with the blue screen and light pen, and a water-cooled 80MHZ NMR made by IBM, of all people. But if I saw either of them today, I would react with a sort of interested horror.
The 40 comments are a fun read if you have any lab experience. I own a
Spec 20 which I purchased at auction. When I was living in Boston, a buddy of mine and I went in 50% each on an RCA EMU-2e Electron Microscope. Got all of the prep equipment too so we had a lot of fun. We were both working at an aquarium that had a research arm so diatoms went under the beam ASAP.
Posted by DaveH at July 26, 2013 9:08 PM