don's home on the internet
Computer/Science/Math:
SETI@Home
- Help find aliens using your computer’s spare time.
Open Source Development Network
and
Microsoft
, both useful choices
Recycled VAX 11/780
Programmable calculators
past
and
present
from Texas Instruments
Old computer resources:
Old-Computers.COM
and
Blinkenlights Archaeological Institute
Slide rule pages:
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
The web
wayback machine
: browse all the way back to that "ancient" year of 1996 :)
Neal Stephenson's awesome essay, "
In the Beginning was the Command Line
"
Some clever developers at SGI developed the idea of
using a Lava Lamp as a random number generator
Crypto pages:
Simon Singh's web page
– Page for the author of The Code Book, a fantastic crypto overview
American Cryptogram Association
Get PGP in
the US
or
outside
RSA Laboratories
Counterpane
The Pros:
The US’s
NSA
and the UK’s
GCHQ
