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• Volatility Will Make You Rich
One way to look at historical volatility is through the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX. Created in 1990 and based on prices of stock index options, the VIX measures the extent to which options traders believe stock prices will move in the near future.
• Answer Desk: Just give me a straight answer, are we in recession ...
Inflation is rising at a very worrisome pace, but it’s still low by historical standards and nowhere near where it was in the 1970s. Why so much gloom and doom?
• McCain takes on global warming
For all of its historical disregard of environmental standards, it cannot have escaped the attention of the Chinese regime that China's skies are dangerously polluted, its beautiful rivers are dying, its grasslands vanishing, its coastlines receding ...
• Get armed and ready for holiday travel
You can find a lot of real-time and historical data about airports and airlines, including statistics about on-time departures, at the Department of Transportation’s Web site . If you live in or are going to a city served by more than one airport ...
• Meditation group: Our minds move markets
Two artists/entrepreneurs are selling hot pink underwear screen-printed with the word "Ypsipanty" as part of an effort to keep alive the city's historical place in the underwear business. Linette Lao and Mark Maynard have sold nearly 200 pair of ...

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• Computers: History  (386)
• Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Microkernel: Mach: NeXT: Software  (5)

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» The Apollo Guidance Computer Project - The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was developed to provide reliable real-time control for the Apollo spacecraft that carried US astronauts to the moon, 1969-1972. This site is devoted to documenting the machines, people and institutions that made this possible.
» BESM-6 Nostalgia Page - Information about the late Soviet mainframe computer BESM-6, the last original was dismantled in 1995.
» Blinkenlights Archaeological Institute - The Institute was established in 1997 to excavate, preserve, research, and present interesting and historically significant computing devices.
» The Burroughs B-205 Computer - A mixture of science fiction and fact concerning the B205.
» Charles Babbage Institute - CBI is a research center dedicated to promoting the study of the history of computing and its impact on society, and preserving relevant documentation.
» The Computer Closet - Rescues classic microcomputers and video games from the junk heap.
» Computer History Association of California - Chac is a nonprofit corporation, who safeguards and organizes the history of electronic computing, not only in California, but nationally and internationally. They collect and archive hardware, software and documents.
» Cosmac Elf - History of 1802-based computing and home of the TinyELF emulator for Palm OS handhelds. Documents, scans, message board.
» Enigma Replica - Shows all processes involved Building a replica of the German M4 Naval Enigma.
» Historical Computer Society - International user group for old computer enthusiasts "old computers" and/or "old enthusiasts. Dedicated to preserving older and classic computer hardware, software, and literature.
» Ian's 'Naff Computer Pics Page' - A page with some pictures of Honeywell-Bull mainframes and mini's (DPS-6 and DPS-7)
» ICL 1900 Series Computers - Information about the ICL 1900 series mainframes from the 1970s, both hardware and software. The George (1S, 2, 3 and 4) series operating systems, Minimop and Maximop. Programming languages and other information.
» John Elliott - Dedicated to computers and/or operating systems which some might describe as obsolete.
» Largest Classic Computer Documentation Archive - Thousands of scanned classic computer documents.
» Mechanical Aids to Calculation - History on the first automatic totalizer by Sir George Julius, mechanical aids to calculation - extracts of a paper presented to the Institution of Engineers Australia in 1920.
» MIXTEL - Site is dedicated to the first home computer that could be bought in the UK.
» The Oldskool PC Shrines - Honoring personal computing in the 1980s.
» PC - History - Devoted to the history of the PC, covers all types of personal computers from 1970 to present.
» Retro Computer Gallery - Collection of pictures of old computers, consoles, handhelds and magazines.
» Russian Virtual Computer Museum - The gathering of information concerning the primary stage of origination and development of IT and computing, primarily in Russia and ex-USSR.
» Sos-hardware.windowstothemax.com - Specifications and known problems of old hardware.
» The SWTPC Computer Documentation Repository - Documentation for the SWTPC computer line.
» Video Genie System - A personal tribute to an early model PC.