Episode 150 - Starting Windows Up
In the modern day Windows is a power house, but that wasn't always the case. In this episode we are looking at the fraught development of Windows 1.0. During development it was called vaporware, it wa...
20 Jan 20251h 5min
Episode 149 - IDRIS Is Not UNIX
This episode we are taking a trip back to UNIX world. We're looking at IDRIS, the first clone of UNIX. It was supposed to be highly compatible, but use no code from Bell Labs. IDRIS ran on everything ...
5 Jan 202558min
Episode 148 - Is BLISS Ignorance?
In 1970 a little language called BLISS emerged from Carnegie Mellon University. It was a systems language, meant for operating systems and compilers. It was designed, in part, as a response to Dijkstr...
22 Dec 20241h 3min
Episode 147 - Molecular Electronic Computer
In 1961 Texas Instruments unveiled the Molecular Electronic Computer, aka: Mol-E-Com. It was a machine that fit in the palm of your hand, but had all the power of a much larger computer. This was in a...
9 Dec 202454min
Episode 146 - The Z4
The Z4, completed by Konrad Zuse in 1945, is a computer with a wild story. It was made from scrounged parts, survived years of bombing raids, moved all around Berlin, and eventually took refuge in bas...
25 Nov 202458min
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
