Tom Lyon
On The Metal
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Brian Cantrell, Jess, and guest Tom Lyon discuss the significance and color of buttons and indicators from an IBM 360 mainframe, including an interesting anecdote about the origin of the 'ready' light.
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You can find Tom on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aka_pugs and find his blog at https://akapugs.blog/. You can learn more about DriveScale at https://drivescale.com/.
Tom brought us a present: an IBM 360-era "Ready" button!
Some of the highlights of the show include:
- Williams tube (CRT-based memory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
- Mercury delay lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
- Datapoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint
- Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution by Lamont Wood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16214216-datapoint
- ARCNET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET
- AppleTalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk
- Z8530 UART: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_SCC
- Apple LaserWriter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter
- DECnet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet
- X.25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25
- Tom's notes from the NFS offsite in 1983: https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/985941297327366144
- Automounter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automounter
- CAP theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
- Sun's Network Disk (nd) protocol: https://github.com/senjan/ndd/blob/master/nd_pkt.h (if you find nd(4P) from the SunOS 3.x man pages, let us know!)
- The Internet Collapse of 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_congestion#Congestive_collapse
- Larry Roberts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist)
- Telenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet
- Tandem Computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers
- Token ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ring
- Ipsilon Networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks
- FDDI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Distributed_Data_Interface
- Crescendo Communications: https://books.google.com/books?id=PDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44
- CDC 3400: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_3000_series
- Ones' Complement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complement
- IBM 1130: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130
- Olivetti Programma 101: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101
- TI-83: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-83_series
- HP 48G: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series
- HP-35: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-35
- ed(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)
- IBM System/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370
- APL\360: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#APL%5C360
- IBM 2741 with APL keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741#/media/File:IBM2741.JPG
- VM/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
- Unibus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibus
- Interdata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata
- Greg Chesson: https://grainger.illinois.edu/alumni/distinguished/7939
- Joe Ossanna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossanna
- nroff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff
- IBM 1403: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1403
- Amdahl UTS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTS
- IBM 3270 terminal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270
- Dick Lyon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Lyon
- MAXC, PARC's PDP-10 clone: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/parts/maxc-board/index.html
- Berkeley Computer Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genie
- Bob Lyon: https://www.facebook.com/bob.lyon.98
- Optical mouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_mouse
- The Oxide garage Sun art work of mysterious origin (a Sun-3/160, perhaps?): https://oxide.computer/img/garage-sun.jpg
- Steve Kirsch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kirsch
- Dick Lyon's (color!) technical report on the optical mouse: http://www.dicklyon.com/tech/OMouse/OpticalMouse-Lyon.pdf
- Ipsilon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks
- ATM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_transfer_mode
- Andy Bechtolsheim on "Death to ATM" (July 1996): https://web.archive.org/web/20001217105700/https://www.redherring.com/mag/issue33/atm.html
- Tom's original announcement of VFIO: https://lwn.net/Articles/391459/
- Open Source Firmware Conference: htt...
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