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Advent of Computing

Sean Haas

Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.

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213 episodes

  1. Episode 194 - SpeedCoding Your Way to Software 1:05:14
  2. Episode 193 - Digital Dating... SCAM? 25:34
  3. Episode 192 - Local Computer Held Hostage! 28:59
  4. Episode 191 - The BHP Virus 25:20
  5. Episode 190 - Machine Room or DEATH TRAP!? 29:58
  6. Episode 189 - The IBM 701 1:05:52
  7. Usagi Electric and the LGP-21 Restoration 1:03:18
  8. Episode 188 - Training and Teaching with the Bi-Tran Six 52:55
  9. Episode 187 - What's Better Than Binary? 1:05:10
  10. LIVE from VCF West - Wait, Is That Really UNIX? 48:08
  11. Episode 186 - MADDIDA 1:07:11
  12. Episode 185 - Is EMUL-8ion a Form of Flattery? 1:01:24
  13. Episode 184 - What Is A Programming Language? 1:09:34
  14. Dale Biagio - Hello, World! 31:44
  15. Episode 183 - A Digital Gap? 54:58
  16. Episode 182 - Spinning Memories 58:31
  17. Episode 181 - RAYDAC 1:12:18
  18. Episode 180 - You Wouldn't Magnetize a Tape! 1:06:28
  19. Episode 179 - Programming Block by Block 1:01:59
  20. Episode 178 - The Programma 101 1:02:46
  21. Dan Temkin - Forty-Four Esolangs 51:59
  22. Episode 177 - Getting Real with RSX 57:49
  23. Episode 176 - Is That Even UNIX? 1:02:22
  24. Episode 175 - SNOBOL? That's Disgusting! 1:05:59
  25. Episode 174 - The Bell Model I 1:02:50
  26. Episode 173 - Hybrid Programming 1:02:59
  27. Episode 172 - Analog/Hybrid 1:05:04
  28. Episode 171 - What Is a 4GL? 54:42
  29. Episode 170 - Thoroughbred/OS 1:00:00
  30. Episode 169.5 - Ben Zotto and the Story of Sphere Computers 52:41
  31. Episode 169 - Dellinger's Viruses 26:10
  32. Episode 168 - Halt and Catch Fire 26:45
  33. Episode 167 - The Tape That Unwound Itself 27:25
  34. Episode 166 - Beyond the PDP-11 1:00:10
  35. Episode 165 - LSI-11 54:48
  36. Episode 164 - LGP-30 LIVE! from VCF West 52:03
  37. Episode 163 - Ever Heard of the PDP-11? 58:01
  38. Episode 162 - CSIRAC, Australia's First Computer 1:01:05
  39. Episode 161 - The IAS Machine 1:03:18
  40. Episode 160 - What can Lunar Lander tell us about FOCAL? 56:28
  41. Episode 159 - The Intel 286: A Legacy Trap 1:06:40
  42. Episode 158 - INTERCAL RIDES AGAIN - Restoring a Lost Compiler 1:08:22
  43. Episode 157 - Only S1 Users Will Survive! 1:04:40
  44. Episode 156 - RPG, a Different Paradigm? 1:04:10
  45. Episode 155 - LINC 58:21
  46. Episode 154 - ACTing Up 1:20:48
  47. Episode 153 - The Keypact Mystery 55:07
  48. Episode 152 - LIVE at VCF - Reviving Retro Panel 1:00:06
  49. Episode 151 - The Friden Flexowriter 1:00:33
  50. Episode 150 - Starting Windows Up 1:05:06