I have raised the subject of SL-7’s as museum ships before in a cursory fashion, but lunch with John Riddle, a retired Sea-Lander, convinced us that it deserves a bit more consideration. Based on ...

The SL-7 was a class of high-speed steam containerships built for SeaLand in the early 1970s, operating at speeds in excess of 33 knots. These ships were later converted to the Algol-class Fast ...

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 2, number 5 (September–October 1970), pages 14–15, 44–45. The text is ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Whether the goal is ...

With major IT trends like the cloud, popularity builds over a period of years—waxing and waning but moving inexorably forward. Other trends take the enterprise world by storm, seeming to come out of ...