HoCCSU

Founded in 2007 to study technological development and innovation, especially relating to the relationship between computing technologies, people and society.

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Photos of some of the first computer programmers
@SwanseaUni c.1960s for #HBAHTech this week.
What are your memories of your first computer?
What was the most important piece of technology during your studies?
@HoCCsu @Swansea_Alumni @BeginsHistory

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ByteSize Look: The 1988 #IBM compatible #AMSTRAD #PPC512 portable personal computer features 512 KiB of memory, a full size keyboard built into the lid, and could be powered with batteries or even a car cigarette lighter adapter for use on the go! #RetroComputing #MuseumFromHome

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ByteSize Look: The #Kodak #EasyShare CX7300 #digitalcamera released in 2004, was designed to be a simple, budget friendly #pointandshoot camera, featuring a 3.2 megapixel resolution, 16mb of inbuilt memory and 3X fixed zoom. What was your first digital camera? #museumfromhome

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ByteSize Look: The first model of the #Sony #Playstation1 released in the UK in 1995 had 2MB of RAM a 32Bit CPU and RCA AV out ports. Popular games included #GranTurismo #Tekken & #TombRaider. What was your favourite #PS1 game? Who’s looking forward to the #PS5reveal tonight?

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C is for computers! Some of the first computer programmers
@swanseauni, c.1960s. @Swansea2020 @HoCCsu #ArchiveZ

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ByteSize Look: The #OculusrfitDK2 #virtualreality headset was a pre-production model released in 2014 by #Oculus. It had an #OLED display, 960x1080 resolution per eye, a field of view of 100° and a position tracking near infrared #CMOSsensor. Anyone use a DK2? Who still has one?

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ByteSize Look: The #BBCMicro was made in 1981 by #AcornComputers for the @BBC Computer Literacy Project. Popular with UK schools, home computing and gamers alike, with titles including Repton and Exile. Ever use a #Beeb? Share your memories with us! #MuseumFromHome @bbcarts

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Day 27 of #Archive30. Some of the first computer programmers @swanseauni, c,.1960s. @Swansea2020 #archivehacks @HoCCsu

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ByteSize Look: Krazy Kong (1983) is a #Commodore #Vic20 game by UK company ANIROG. A copy of the popular #Nintendo game #DonkeyKong. Cassette games worked by representing computer code as audio. Ever played a cassette game before?#museumsfromhome #MuseumsUnlocked #retogames #8bit

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Interested in finding out more about us? Introducing HoCC! #swanseauniversity @SwanseaUni @CompFoundry

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Delighted to feature in Momentum Research Magazine #SwanseaUniversity. Read ‘The Computer Revolution’ on page 10 and discover more about our wonderful collection! #computing @SwanseaUni @CompFoundry https://t.co/AIt7w5Wccb

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ByteSize Look: Launched in 1982 the Sinclair #ZXSpectrum had a full colour display and sold 5 million units in 10 years across 8 different models that ranged from 16kb to 128kb. Did you ever own one? What was your favourite Spectrum game?@ZX_spectrum #retrogaming #museumfromhome

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ByteSize Look: The #Nokia6210 launched in 2000 could hold 150 text messages. In 2001 the #Motorola V66i flip phone had 5 in-built games. The #Blackberry7290 released in 2004, had a QWERTY keyboard and the ability to receive emails. What was your first phone and what could it do?

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ByteSize Look: Launched in 1988 the AMSTRAD ALT-386 weighed over 7kg and features 1MB of RAM, a floppy disk drive, the ability to connect to a monitor and a single hinge on the bottom right of the screen. Ever use one of these? #Amstrad #RetroComputing #MuseumFromHome @Lord_Sugar

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ByteSize Look: The Dragon 32 was made in Swansea and Port Talbot by Dragon Data from 1982. It had only 32 kilobytes of RAM, but could run the very first programs in the Welsh language. Do you remember the Dragon 32? #ComputerHistory #RetroComputing #WelshLanguage #MuseumFromHome

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Adjusting to working or studying from home can be hard.

We’ve put together some advice which we hope will help get you through.

Remember - you can’t pour from an empty cup, so save a copy and remind yourself of these tips every day.

Stay home. Stay well. 💙

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Today's #portraitoftheday is mathematician, writer and computer programmer Countess Ada Lovelace, who wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine in the 1840s.

Who are your female role models? #WomensHistoryMonth #MuseumFromHome