Episode 145 - Zuse's Mysterious Machines
In 1933 Konrad Zuse, a German civil engineer, caught the computing bug. It would consume the rest of his life. According Zuse he invented the world's first digital computer during WWII, working in nea...
11 Nov 20241h
Episode 144 - RABBITS
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27 Okt 202421min
Episode 143 - The Haunted Hard Drive
Have you ever felt like a computer just refuses to work? Like a machine has a mind of it's own? In 1970 a hard drive at the National Farmers Union Corp. office decided to do just that. That year it st...
20 Okt 202421min
Episode 142 - OS and JEDGAR
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 one another's terminals. That is, until some intrepi...
13 Okt 202419min
Episode 141 - Computer Ruins Grocer
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 mind of it's own, and would spread chaos to grocery...
6 Okt 202418min
Episode 140 - Assembling Code
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 user friendly. New tools have been developed that ma...
29 Sep 20241h 3min
Episode 139 - HUTSPIEL
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 played on a computer. It's a wargame developed to sim...
15 Sep 20241h 6min
Episode 138 - Type-It-Yourself
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-in program. Along the way we will see how tradition...
1 Sep 20241h 3min
