User:Maury Markowitz
Apparently this is the thing to do...
Encryption devices
Aircraft
Westland Whirlwind Westland Welkin Supermarine Spitfire Supermarine Seafire Supermarine Spiteful Supermarine Seafang Hawker Hurricane Hawker Typhoon Bristol Blenheim Bristol Beaufort Bristol Beaufighter Bachem Ba 349 Messerschmitt Me 163 Messerschmitt Me 262 Avro Arrow Shorts Stirling Heinkel He 111 Fokker D.VII Macchi C.200 Macchi C.202 Macchi C.205 Mitsubishi Zero Aichi D3A Dornier Do 17 Fieseler Fi 165 Gotha Go 229 Polikarpov I-16 Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Heinkel He 219 Heinkel He 112 Heinkel He 100 Arado Ar 80 IAR 80 Henschel Hs 129 Arado Ar 234 Blohm und Voss Bv 155
Bristol Aeroplane Company Fokker Scourge interrupter gear Air Ministry Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM)
interceptor heavy fighter strike fighter bomber destroyer torpedo bomber dive bomber
power-to-weight ratio center of gravity center of pressure gee
and their engines
Rolls Royce Merlin all the Bristol engines Napier & Son Napier Lion Napier Sabre Napier Nomad
aircraft engine inline engine rotary engine radial engine diesel cycle Wankel engine Miller cycle Evaporative cooling turbocharger supercharger jet engine
and anti-aircraft
Computer history stuff
Computer history is easy, at least half of it existed since I learned to read.
Computer companies
NeXT Data General Cray Research Control Data Corporation Engineering Research Associates MOS Technologies Atari Commodore International ARM
Computers themselves
GE-600 series GE-200 series Data General Nova SAGE Project Whirlwind Atari Transputer Workstation Unisys ICON Commodore PET KIM-1 Atari ST Meiko Computing Surface Datamax UV-1 Bally Astrocade Exidy Sorcerer Altair 8800
CPU's etc.
Motorola 56000 Motorola 96000 INMOS Transputer nCUBE iWarp 6502
Technologies
core memory Williams tube bubble memory drum memory Taligent RISC SIMD
Languages
BASIC programming language (the history part) GRASS programming language
OS related
Back when Apple bought NeXT I got really interested in operating systems. No idea why really, but if you're interested in such things, check out the Plan 9 article.
GEM CP/M Digital Research QNX Mach kernel Plan 9 OpenStep NEXTSTEP
Display systems
PostScript Display PostScript NeWS Teletext Videotex Telidon NAPLPS
Computer bus systems
NuBus Futurebus Scalable Coherent Interconnect Apple Desktop Bus HyperTransport InfiniBand QuickRing MicroChannel VMEbus I²C ACCESS.bus PCI-Express HIPPI Fibre Channel
Low voltage differential signaling ALOHAnet ARCnet
Other things
Phreaking Autovon Water-wheel Tyson turbine Banki turbine venturi radar
Rhodes Colossus of Rhodes Knights Hospitaller Henry Hudson John Cabot corporate immune response Not Invented Here poison pill takeover turf war empire building
about 100 others I can't remember any more
Maury! No clever handle? What happened to Havok?
You know, this list says a lot about you. I'm afraid now.
- — Pandora