CS Museum Catalog — items starting with P
PASCAL User Manual and Report
Sat, 2010-03-27 00:43 — alabitolDonor: Anonymous
This manual is the second edition written by kathleen Jensen. It provides information about programming in PASCAL.
PDP to VAX Kermit file copy instructions
Sun, 2010-02-07 16:39 — panjiabeKermit, developed at Columbia University in 1981, is a protocol for file transfer, terminal emulation, character-set conversion, and other platform-independent communication services, known especially as a tool for standardized and efficient…
Personal Pearl Software and User Manual
Sun, 2010-02-07 16:52 — walkerDonor: Anonymous
Personal Pearl is a database program developed in 1982. This specific package came with a Osborne Computer Corporation computer. This information can be deduced from the binder that has written on it, "Approved Software". The package comes…
Pickett & Eckel Slide Rule
Sun, 2010-02-07 16:34 — walkerDonor: Henry Walker
Slide rule by Pickett & Eckel that was made in 1948. The slide rule was used to do multiplication, division, trigonometric functions, and logarithms. The straight slide rules were not as accurate as the Atlas Slide Rule, which could get up to…
PIRELLI OPTICAL CABLE
Sat, 2010-03-27 01:07 — alabitolDonor: Anonymous
Formerly in Grinnell College, copper cables were used to connect all the computers together for internet purposes. This proved to be a bad method because whenever there was a thunder-storm, the cable carried the electric charges from lightning…
Plus Hardcard 20 for the IBM PC
Wed, 2010-02-10 10:07 — panjiabeDonor: David Coahran
Received from David Coahran 06-15-2007
Note from Stone: 20-meg "card drive" to plug in an IBM PC (surplus from Washington State University in 1997) 1985-1986? loaded with WordPerfect 5.1, Norton Utilities - can boot
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