professorjrod@gmail.com One idea rewired computing: what if one machine could convincingly pretend to be many? We start with mainframes and time sharing, then move through hypervisors, virtual machines, and the moment virtualization became the backbone of the cloud. From there, the story accelerates into public, private, hybrid, and community cloud models, and the service stack that defines modern IT—Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service—so you know exa...
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professorjrod@gmail.com One idea rewired computing: what if one machine could convincingly pretend to be many? We start with mainframes and time sharing, then move through hypervisors, virtual machines, and the moment virtualization became the backbone of the cloud. From there, the story accelerates into public, private, hybrid, and community cloud models, and the service stack that defines modern IT—Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service—so you know exa...
History of Modern Technology: Cards, Codes, And Courage
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History of Modern Technology: Cards, Codes, And Courage
professorjrod@gmail.com A census solved with cardboard, a company remade by a $5 billion gamble, and a tiny firmware layer that cracked open the PC market—this is the human story behind how computing became a platform, not a product. We go from Hermann Hollerith’s 1890 insight to IBM’s sales-first system that taught the world to think in fields and records, and then to the cultural and ethical crosscurrents that come with scale. Those punched holes didn’t just count people; they trained gener...
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professorjrod@gmail.com One idea rewired computing: what if one machine could convincingly pretend to be many? We start with mainframes and time sharing, then move through hypervisors, virtual machines, and the moment virtualization became the backbone of the cloud. From there, the story accelerates into public, private, hybrid, and community cloud models, and the service stack that defines modern IT—Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service—so you know exa...
