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SQL represents data stored in rows and tables, while high-growth NoSQL is data stores arranged via nested documents as columnar…
Alex Williams| April 9, 2021
The design of today's electronic computers is usually not very appealing, in contrast to magnificent mechanical calculating machines from earlier times.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | April 8, 2021 at 10:24 AM
Automatons are ubiquitous. Some of the most magnificent works in the genre have survived in museums.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | March 8, 2021 at 03:02 PM
A rare find: the user manual of the oldest surviving computer in the world, the Zuse Z4 relay machine (1945).
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | September 21, 2020 at 10:04 AM
The world's largest mass-produced cylindrical slide rules come from Loga-Calculator AG in Zurich/Uster, Switzerland.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | May 13, 2020 at 04:53 PM
Herbert Bruderer asks why no information technology industry emerged in Switzerland in the 1950s, despite the appearance of computers from several sources.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | January 28, 2020 at 12:34 PM
How to deal with Roman numerals and without a sign for zero in an additive number system, if no hand abacus is available?
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | March 18, 2019 at 10:02 AM
Documenting the discovery of several previously unknown replicas of historical computing devices made by Roberto A. Guatelli.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | January 11, 2019 at 03:26 PM
Discovery of a previously unknown replica of the legendary Swiss Millionaire calculating machine at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | December 12, 2018 at 02:04 PM
In 1897, ETH Zurich was the first university in the world to have a copy of the legendary four-species calculating machine Millionaire.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | August 24, 2018 at 11:44 AM