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  1. I have many proceedings and reports from my time at the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis from 1973 to 1978. Photos of the covers, often including the list of papers in each volume are here.
    This material ought to be made publicly available; suggestions are welcome.
  2. HW I have used (at least a little) DEC PDP 1, 8, 10, 11, Vax 11/780; IBM 1620, 7094, 360, 370, 5100; Prime; Lisp Machine; Motorola 6811, 68000, 68010, 68020; Sequent Balance; CM–2; Intel 8051, 8086, Pentium, Xeon; Sun Sparc; AMD Opteron. Wordlengths: 8, 12, 16, 32, 36 (containing 5 7–bit chars plus 1 spare bit)
  3. How to program a low level machine e.g., a PDP–1 with paper tape, 1960s.
  4. How to program slightly higher level machine e.g., an IBM 360/65 with JCL and punch cards, ca. 1966.
  5. Travel Directions to RPI
  6. Obligatory Quotes
  7. My older non-wiki home page - mostly obsolete.
  8. Poster on talking to the hard of hearing
    1. ppt
    2. gif
  9. Janet Franklin, 1947-2006
  10. Peter Aiken Egleson Rare historical documents written by PA Egleson, a leading 19th century Ottawa merchant:
    1. why he chose not to stand for Parliament in 1867, and comparing Canadian and American elections.
    2. autobiography.