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Episode 142
This time we are diving back into the Jargon File to take a look at some hacker folklore. Back in the day hackers at MIT spent their time spying on o…
1 year, 10 months ago
Computer Ruins Grocer
Episode 141
In 1962 Food Center Wholesale Grocers Inc installed a new IBM 305 RAMAC. That's when things started to go wrong. The faulty machine seemed to have a …
1 year, 10 months ago
Assembling Code
Episode 140
Programming, as a practice and study, has been steadily evolving for the past 70 or so years. Over the languages have become more sophisticated and u…
1 year, 11 months ago
HUTSPIEL
Episode 139
The early history of computer games is messy, weird, and surprising. This episode we are looking at HUTSPIEL, perhaps one of the oldest games ever pl…
1 year, 11 months ago
Type-It-Yourself
Episode 138
I'm finally back to my usual programming! This time we are taking one of my patent pending rambles through a topics. Today's victim: the humble type-…
2 years ago
Edge Notched LIVE
Episode 137
LIVE from VCF West 2024, my talk on edge notched cards!
Since this is a live recording from an auditorium the audio is a little boomy, so be warned. …
2 years ago
Data Center Disaster
I've gotten busy preparing for VCF West, so this time you get a short one!
In this byte-sized episode we are looking at a short and strange story: th…
2 years ago
Getting On TRAC
Episode 136
Have you ever formed a bad first impression? Way back when I formed a hasty impression of this language called TRAC. It's been called a proto-esoteri…
2 years, 1 month ago
XENIX
Episode 135
In 1984 SCO released PC XENIX, a port of UNIX that ran on an IBM PC. To understand why that's such a technical feat, and how we even got here, we hav…
2 years, 1 month ago
Beyond the Punch
Episode 134
This episode I'm opening up my research vault to present some interesting pre-digital technology. Back before computers us humans used to write every…
2 years, 2 months ago