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On this day in 1976 the last slide rule was manufactured and presented to the Smithsonian Institution. The slide rule, also known as a slipstick, was a tool …

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Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net: MPC-BE Media Player Classic – BE is a free and open source …

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On this day in 1956 direct keyboard input was introduced on MIT’s Whirlwind, a vacuum tube computer developed for the U.S. Navy. The direct keyboard input method was …

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