Click to play the original computer version of "Daisy" written on an IBM 704 illustrated above.
Design Credits
The original Profectus logo was based on the the computer flowchart symbol for a magnetic tape drive. Tristan Boyd revised the logo to its current form.
This web site was based on the design Reflection by Pat Heard and downloaded from the Open Source Web Design site. The original design has been substantially changed and the original author is not responsible for the appearance or the code of this web site.
Content Credits
Thanks to Bruce Alspaugh, "Ben C", Karen Dew, Bill Karwin, Thomas Mueller, Patsy Segall, Andrew Thompson and Oliver Wong for comments and suggestions.
Program Credits
The photograph albums were produced using JAlbum .
The email address on the Contacts page was obfuscated at AddressMunger.com in the hope that it would not be harvested for spam emails.
Audio Credits
The recording of an IBM 7094 singing "A Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy)" was obtained from audio.textfiles.com/sounds It was programmed on an IBM 704 by John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum (vocal) and Max Mathews (accompaniment).
Photo Credits
Felicity Boyd photographed David Segall for the Résumé page.
Garry Parker provided images for the MythTV page.
Symbols for Rendezvous courtesy of the Integration and Application Network, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science .
Legal Credits
The copyright document for this site is provided by Creative Commons
Image Credits
Click on the images below for an enlarged image. The links in the caption are to more information about the subject or the source of the image.
Founders
John Backus [FORTRAN]
Edgar Codd [Relational Databases]
James Gosling [Java]
Grace Hopper [COBOL]
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz [BASIC]
Ada Lovelace. The first programmer.
Nostalgia
U.S. Army Photo. Left: Patsy Simmers, holding ENIAC board Next: Mrs. Gail Taylor, holding EDVAC board Next: Mrs. Milly Beck, holding ORDVAC board Right: Mrs. Norma Stec, holding BRLESC-I board
From Columbia University Computing History. The IBM 704 computer room at Lawrence Livermore, October 1956. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Photo.
CSIRAC with cabinet doors open, as displayed at the Museum of Victoria for its 50th birthday celebration in 1999.
LEO III/20 Colonial Mutual Life, Melbourne.
l to r: John Hobbs, Ian Lloyd, Mike Smith, Gary Diver.
Leo Computers Society photograph.
"This means that machines, as well as operating on the web information, can do real things. For example, a program could search for a house and negotiate transfer of ownership of the house to a new owner. The land registry guarantees that the title actually represents reality." Tim Berners-Lee 1994
