#belllabs — Public Fediverse posts
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Teletype 5620 DMD, Blit (1984)
http://xahlee.info/kbd/teletype_5620.html
"Blit terminal was a programmable bitmap graphics terminal designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr. of Bell Labs in 1982. Model 5620 DMD (dot-mapped display) was created in 1984. They were sold by AT&T and Teletype Corp."
#retrocomputing #tty #teletype #terminal #t5620 #belllabs #att
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Teletype 5620 DMD, Blit (1984)
http://xahlee.info/kbd/teletype_5620.html
"Blit terminal was a programmable bitmap graphics terminal designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr. of Bell Labs in 1982. Model 5620 DMD (dot-mapped display) was created in 1984. They were sold by AT&T and Teletype Corp."
#retrocomputing #tty #teletype #terminal #t5620 #belllabs #att
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Bell Labs: Where dreams of grandeur meet the reality of uninspired offspring 🤣. Apparently, the peak of #innovation was overshadowed by Dad's telescope show-and-tell in third grade 🎉. Who knew the most groundbreaking invention was the writer's own ego? 🙃🔭
https://acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs/ #BellLabs #Humor #GroundbreakingInvention #Ego #3rdGradeScience #HackerNews #ngated -
Bell Labs: Where dreams of grandeur meet the reality of uninspired offspring 🤣. Apparently, the peak of #innovation was overshadowed by Dad's telescope show-and-tell in third grade 🎉. Who knew the most groundbreaking invention was the writer's own ego? 🙃🔭
https://acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs/ #BellLabs #Humor #GroundbreakingInvention #Ego #3rdGradeScience #HackerNews #ngated -
Plan9: The squeal to Unix
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https://www.europesays.com/people/29456/ Quote of the day by Jeff Bezos on brand image: ‘A brand for a company is like a reputation for….’ #AltosLabs #AmazonFounder #AndersenConsulting #BankersTrust #BellLabs #BlueOrigin #DEShaw&Co #Intel #JeffBezos #YasanthaRajakarunanayake
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CW: Political Race Theory
@CptSuperlative @pluralistic this is the #knowledge shared in stories and #apprenticeships. This is stuff machines can’t capture. This kind of #somatic #tacitknowledge is stored in #mentorships and other human relationships. This kind of sharing made the old #belllabs and makes #amateurradio fun and worthwhile despite the #whitesupremacist milieu.
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CW: Political Race Theory
@CptSuperlative @pluralistic this is the #knowledge shared in stories and #apprenticeships. This is stuff machines can’t capture. This kind of #somatic #tacitknowledge is stored in #mentorships and other human relationships. This kind of sharing made the old #belllabs and makes #amateurradio fun and worthwhile despite the #whitesupremacist milieu.
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CW: Political Race Theory
@CptSuperlative @pluralistic this is the #knowledge shared in stories and #apprenticeships. This is stuff machines can’t capture. This kind of #somatic #tacitknowledge is stored in #mentorships and other human relationships. This kind of sharing made the old #belllabs and makes #amateurradio fun and worthwhile despite the #whitesupremacist milieu.
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CW: Political Race Theory
@CptSuperlative @pluralistic this is the #knowledge shared in stories and #apprenticeships. This is stuff machines can’t capture. This kind of #somatic #tacitknowledge is stored in #mentorships and other human relationships. This kind of sharing made the old #belllabs and makes #amateurradio fun and worthwhile despite the #whitesupremacist milieu.
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CW: Political Race Theory
@CptSuperlative @pluralistic this is the #knowledge shared in stories and #apprenticeships. This is stuff machines can’t capture. This kind of #somatic #tacitknowledge is stored in #mentorships and other human relationships. This kind of sharing made the old #belllabs and makes #amateurradio fun and worthwhile despite the #whitesupremacist milieu.
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Hmm ...fascinating!!
#UNIX #belllabs #operatingsystem #research #CSRG #Innovation #luminaries
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You know the 90-90 rule, this old humorous aphorism saying "Writing the first 90% of the code takes 90% of the time, writing the remaining 10% of the code, takes the other 90% of the time". This came from #BellLabs more than 40 years ago, and I think is something people coding with #LLMs don't quite get.
#LLM #Claude #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI -
You know the 90-90 rule, this old humorous aphorism saying "Writing the first 90% of the code takes 90% of the time, writing the remaining 10% of the code, takes the other 90% of the time". This came from #BellLabs more than 40 years ago, and I think is something people coding with #LLMs don't quite get.
#LLM #Claude #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI -
Introducing direct dial long distance in this 1950s movie via @connections
#ATT #BellLabs #Telephones #Telephony #CommunicationsHistory
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Introducing direct dial long distance in this 1950s movie via @connections
#ATT #BellLabs #Telephones #Telephony #CommunicationsHistory
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Retrotechtacular: Bleeding-Edge Memory Devices of 1959
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Retrotechtacular: Bleeding-Edge Memory Devices of 1959
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Ah, get one for yourself, if you haven't had it already ....invaluable....👍
#UNIX #belllabs #operatingsystem
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HAz8e0qXAAE7u2N?format=jpg&name=900x900
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Ah, get one for yourself, if you haven't had it already ....invaluable....👍
#UNIX #belllabs #operatingsystem
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HAz8e0qXAAE7u2N?format=jpg&name=900x900
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Celebrate!!
Hero....Luminary....Mastermind....Thinker....Teacher...Programmer...
Brilliance personifies....cut above the rest!!
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Celebrate!!
Hero....Luminary....Mastermind....Thinker....Teacher...Programmer...
Brilliance personifies....cut above the rest!!
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En los Laboratorios Bell de Nueva Jersey, William Shockley, John Bardeen y Walter Brattain buscaban una solución: controlar la electricidad a través de materia sólida, no del vacío. 🧪 Lo que lograron la tarde del 23 de diciembre de 1947 parecía un proyecto escolar de primaria hecho con prisa, pero estaba a punto de cambiar el mundo para siempre.
#BellLabs #Fisica #Ciencia #Transistor -
#History #Tech #Computer #Languages #Programming #Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) : main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } korben.info/hello-world-...
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#History #Tech #Computer #Languages #Programming #Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) : main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } korben.info/hello-world-...
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#History #Tech #Computer #Languages #Programming #Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) : main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } korben.info/hello-world-...
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#History #Tech #Computer #Languages #Programming #Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) : main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } korben.info/hello-world-...
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#History #Tech #Computer #Languages #Programming
#Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) :
main()
{
printf("hello, world\n");
}https://korben.info/hello-world-origine-histoire-programmation.html
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#History #Tech #Computer #Languages #Programming
#Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) :
main()
{
printf("hello, world\n");
}https://korben.info/hello-world-origine-histoire-programmation.html
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#History #Tech #Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) : main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } korben.info/hello-world-...
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#History #Tech #Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) : main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } korben.info/hello-world-...
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D'où vient le fameux "Hello World" ?
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://korben.info/hello-world-origine-histoire-programmation.html
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#KenThompson Recalls #Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins
Thompson's vivid recollection of rowdy roomful of geeks at #BellLabs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.
What comes through is his gratefulness for people he’d worked with, and opportunity they’d had to all experiment together in an open environment to explore the limits of new and emerging technologies. It’s a tale of curiosity, a playful sense of serendipity and the enduring value of a community.
https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/ -
#KenThompson Recalls #Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins
Thompson's vivid recollection of rowdy roomful of geeks at #BellLabs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.
What comes through is his gratefulness for people he’d worked with, and opportunity they’d had to all experiment together in an open environment to explore the limits of new and emerging technologies. It’s a tale of curiosity, a playful sense of serendipity and the enduring value of a community.
https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/ -
This was a well-spent 4.5 hours 🙇🏽🤩:
“Oral History Of Ken Thompson” [2025], Computer History Museum (https://youtu.be/OmVHkL0IWk4).
“A Computing Legend Speaks”, David Brock, CHM (https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-computing-legend-speaks/).
#Unix #BellLabs #C #OralHistory #ComputerHistory #KenThompson
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This was a well-spent 4.5 hours 🙇🏽🤩:
“Oral History Of Ken Thompson” [2025], Computer History Museum (https://youtu.be/OmVHkL0IWk4).
“A Computing Legend Speaks”, David Brock, CHM (https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-computing-legend-speaks/).
#Unix #BellLabs #C #OralHistory #ComputerHistory #KenThompson
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🚨OMG, #Unix is a VIRUS!🚨 Apparently, Bell Labs hatched an evil plan to make everyone dependent on their "inexpensive" yet hilariously unreliable software. 😂 Guess the 70s were all about #disco and diabolical #code conspiracies! 🕺💻
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/U/Unix-conspiracy.html #Conspiracy #BellLabs #SoftwareHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨OMG, #Unix is a VIRUS!🚨 Apparently, Bell Labs hatched an evil plan to make everyone dependent on their "inexpensive" yet hilariously unreliable software. 😂 Guess the 70s were all about #disco and diabolical #code conspiracies! 🕺💻
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/U/Unix-conspiracy.html #Conspiracy #BellLabs #SoftwareHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
I'm guessing that Bell Labs was the only place totally immune to Not Invented Here Syndrome, because everything really was invented there. [1]
Thoughts?
[1] To a first approximation, anyway.
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I'm guessing that Bell Labs was the only place totally immune to Not Invented Here Syndrome, because everything really was invented there. [1]
Thoughts?
[1] To a first approximation, anyway.
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I'm guessing that Bell Labs was the only place totally immune to Not Invented Here Syndrome, because everything really was invented there. [1]
Thoughts?
[1] To a first approximation, anyway.
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I'm guessing that Bell Labs was the only place totally immune to Not Invented Here Syndrome, because everything really was invented there. [1]
Thoughts?
[1] To a first approximation, anyway.
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I'm guessing that Bell Labs was the only place totally immune to Not Invented Here Syndrome, because everything really was invented there. [1]
Thoughts?
[1] To a first approximation, anyway.
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“What I Saw At The Evolution Of Plan 9” [PDF], Geoff Collyer (https://adi.onl/oral.pdf).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108977
#Plan9 #OS #Unix #ComputerHistory #BellLabs #OperatingSystems #P9
