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Ars Technica has the beginning of what looks to be a great series on the history of the Amiga computer. The Amiga 500 (example shown above) is probably my favorite computer of all that I’ve owned, built, or re-built. I lusted after it during high school, purchased one just before heading off to college, and [...]

…for dinner! This is cute. Apparently an early predecessor of Cookie Monster. And an early predecessor of the PC.

I just noticed that Mark Cerny will be giving a talk on the PlayStation3′s graphics chip, the RSX, at GDC 2007. I know that Mark was intimately involved with this chip and has a lot of opinions and expertise about it. If you’re going to be at GDC, and you’re working on the PS3, this [...]

This evening I attended a reception at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA… it was a party for the alumni of the computer science program at the University of Washington. The reception itself was good, though frankly I didn’t recognize a single student there. I did see a few professors I recognized, most [...]

George Lucas spoke at Siggraph today, and I have to admit, it wasn’t a very good keynote. They had a two hour time slot for him, and spent the first hour giving the annual Siggraph computer graphics awards. The second hour was a “Hollywood event guy” asking George generic softball questions and basically giving him [...]