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4/6 October - Install Party

Bought a brand new cheap netbook. Installed Ubuntu by myself, therefore joined the Debian group.

First day: not everything clear, especially regarding the file structure. Realized I was missing the basic terminal commands. Anyway Debian was installed and it was working fine (except for the wireless and the audio).

Second day: not able to follow, pretty much copying from the screen. Got the audio to work. Realized my netbook processor is 64. Had to reinstall from scratch. Installed Ubuntu this time.

10 October - Terminal session /part 1

In developing his mechanical loom, Joseph Marie Jacquard implemented punched cards. It was 1801. Punched cards were a crucial innovation that would eventually affect the whole computer industry becausese they were the only way to store data.

A company called Dehomeag, subsidiary to IBM, was leading the punchcards movement.

Then the punchcard technology became deprecated for the connection with Nazism: punch cards allowed Nazis to have scientific control over the repressed people. People started to think punchcard were allowing a repressive control over people.

The terminal concept was a sort of response to punchcards: instead of punching cards, writing command and data into a terminal. In fact the first terminal was not much more than a typing machine. Computer were made in a modular way: terminal were meant only to send data and to display it, not to precess them.

VT100 is an example of "dumb" terminal.

In parallel to terminal, serial consoles came to exist. A serial console allowed the admin to connect to the system through it. Now the difference between serial consoles and terminal is pretty blurred.

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