Tom Lyon

You can find Tom on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aka_pugs and find his blog at https://akapugs.blog/. You can learn more about DriveScale at https://drivescale.com/.

Tom brought us a present: an IBM 360-era "Ready" button!

Some of the highlights of the show include:

• Williams tube (CRT-based memory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube • Mercury delay lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory • Datapoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DatapointDatapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution • by Lamont Wood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16214216-datapoint • ARCNET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET • AppleTalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk • Z8530 UART: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_SCC • Apple LaserWriter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter • DECnet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet • X.25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25 • Tom's notes from the NFS offsite in 1983: https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/985941297327366144 • Automounter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automounter • CAP theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem • Sun's Network Disk (nd) protocol: https://github.com/senjan/ndd/blob/master/nd_pkt.h • (if you find nd(4P) from the SunOS 3.x man pages, let us know!) • The Internet Collapse of 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_congestion#Congestive_collapse • Larry Roberts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist) • Telenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet • Tandem Computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers • Token ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ring • Ipsilon Networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks • FDDI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Distributed_Data_Interface • Crescendo Communications: https://books.google.com/books?id=PDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44 • CDC 3400: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_3000_series • Ones' Complement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complement • IBM 1130: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130 • Olivetti Programma 101: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101 • TI-83: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-83_series • HP 48G: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series • HP-35: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-35 • ed(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor) • IBM System/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370 • APL\360: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#APL%5C360 • IBM 2741 with APL keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741#/media/File:IBM2741.JPG • VM/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system) • Unibus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibus • Interdata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata • Greg Chesson: https://grainger.illinois.edu/alumni/distinguished/7939 • Joe Ossanna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossanna • nroff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff • IBM 1403: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1403 • Amdahl UTS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTS • IBM 3270 terminal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270 • Dick Lyon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Lyon • MAXC, PARC's PDP-10 clone: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/parts/maxc-board/index.html • Berkeley Computer Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genie • Bob Lyon: https://www.facebook.com/bob.lyon.98 • Optical mouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_mouse • The Oxide garage Sun art work of mysterious origin (a Sun-3/160, perhaps?): https://oxide.computer/img/garage-sun.jpg • Steve Kirsch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kirsch • Dick Lyon's (color!) technical report on the optical mouse: http://www.dicklyon.com/tech/OMouse/OpticalMouse-Lyon.pdf • Ipsilon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks • ATM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_transfer_mode • Andy Bechtolsheim on "Death to ATM" (July 1996): https://web.archive.org/web/20001217105700/https://www.redherring.com/mag/issue33/atm.html • Tom's original announcement of VFIO: https://lwn.net/Articles/391459/ • Open Source Firmware Conference: htt...