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Advent of Computing

Advent of Computing

60 episodes

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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Episode 51 - The IBM PC

Published: March 8, 2021, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 50 - 8086: The Unexpected Future

Published: Feb. 22, 2021, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 53 seconds

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Episode 49 - Numeric Control and Digital Westerns

Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 48 - Electric Ping-Pong

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 47.5 - Lars Brinkhoff Interview, Preserving ITS

Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 47 - ITS: Open Computing

Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 46 - Hacker Folklore

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 45 - Keeping Things BASIC

Published: Dec. 14, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 44 - ENIAC, Part II

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 43 - ENIAC, Part I

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 42 - IBM Gets Personal

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 43 seconds

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Episode 41 - Return of Viruses: The Spread

Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 40 - Spam, Email, and Best Intentions

Published: Oct. 4, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 39 - Learning Along the Oregon Trail

Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 38 - JOVIAL, the Evolution of Programming

Published: Sept. 6, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 37 - The Rise of DOS

Published: Aug. 23, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 36 - The Rise of CP/M

Published: Aug. 9, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 35 - Analog Computing and the Automatic Totalisator

Published: July 26, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 34 - 8080 VS Z80

Published: July 12, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 33.5 - Brad Chase Interview, Marketing Lead for Windows 95 and Much More

Published: July 5, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 33 - Becoming Portable

Published: June 28, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 32 - Road to Transistors, Part II

Published: June 14, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 31 - Road to Transistors: Part I

Published: May 31, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 30 - Coherent Is Not UNIX!

Published: May 17, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 29.5 - A Guided Tour of the Macintosh

Published: May 10, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 29 - PCM, Origins of Digital Audio

Published: May 3, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 28 - Applesoft BASIC, Microsoft and Apple's First Collaboration

Published: April 19, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 27 - Vectrex, Playing With Vectors

Published: April 5, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 26 - Memex and Hyperlinks

Published: March 22, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 25 - Making Disks Flexible, Part 2

Published: March 8, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode 24 - Making Disks Flexible, Part 1

Published: Feb. 24, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode 23 - FORTRAN, Compilers, and Early Programming

Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 22 - Going Rogue

Published: Jan. 26, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 21 - 8008: Intel's Second Shot

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 20.5 - Cooking in Y2K

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 20 - PLATO Part 2: An Online Revolution

Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 19 - PLATO Part 1: A Revolution in Teaching

Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 18 - Evolution of the Mouse

Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 17.5 - Bill's Problem with Piracy

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 17 - The BBC Domesday Project

Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 16 - 4004: The First Microprocessor

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 15 - Lost in the Colossal Cave

Published: Oct. 20, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 14 - Creeping Towards Viruses

Published: Oct. 6, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 13.5 - Minitel Research Lab Interview, with Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll

Published: Sept. 29, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 13 - Minitel, the French Network Connection

Published: Sept. 22, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 12 - Journey to Altair

Published: Sept. 8, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 20 seconds

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Episode 11 - Spacewar! (the Game)

Published: Aug. 25, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 10.5 - The Jargon File

Published: Aug. 18, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 10 - Networking for a Nuclear War, the Americans

Published: Aug. 11, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 9 - Networking for a Nuclear War, the Soviets

Published: July 28, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 8 - Acorn and the BBC

Published: July 14, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 7 - Attack of the PC Clones

Published: June 30, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 6.5 - Edge-Notched

Published: June 23, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 6 - Digital Voices

Published: June 16, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 5 - Unix for the People, Part 2

Published: June 2, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 4.5 - Space Travel!

Published: May 27, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 4 - Unix for the People, Part 1

Published: May 20, 2019, 4:24 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 3 - Mythic Macintosh

Published: May 5, 2019, 11:48 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 2 - The Demo

Published: April 22, 2019, 3:50 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 1 - Folded Spindled and Mutilated

Published: April 9, 2019, 7 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 39 seconds

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