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Tom Lyon ✅

@aka_pugs@mastodon.social

mastodon 4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-16

UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967.
Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter)

#fedi22 #ComputerHistory #SunMicrosystems #UNIX

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social · 3d ago

OTD 1986: Microsoft goes public. Only 9 days after Sun Microsystems.

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social · 3d ago

OTD 1996 (30 years!): The Nokia 9000 "Communicator" - clamshell smart phone.

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

OTD 1975: First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club See https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102740021/

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social

UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

OTD 1986 (40 years!): #SunMicrosystems goes public.

Scan of Red Herring with lots of facts and figures:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MXh04jhmrqIO8hbCs7pRxlEZ-ql59s7R/view?usp=sharing

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social

UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

OTD 1975, Digital announces the #PDP-11/70.
With up to 4 Megabytes(!) of memory.

Princeton's PDP-11/45 had 80K bytes of memory. Ran UNIX just fine.

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

OTD 1982: The founding of #SunMicrosystems.

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026

OTD 1961: Burroughs announces the B5000 computer.

Transcript from a 1985 conference about the B5000 here: https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107105/oh098b5c.pdf

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social

UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967. Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter) # fedi22 # ComputerHistory # SunMicrosystems # UNIX

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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2026

Ever wonder about the state of Data Processing before the computer?

Behold "The Punched Card" - 200 glorious pages from 1952 describing the state of the art of electro-mechanical paper pushing!

With fabulous fifties art and culture!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AQdno-JCFSmA0JcuB7pVtW87XyhnOHFp?usp=sharing
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