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Mark ChristensenMarkChristensen@social.sigsoft.org
2025-06-10

@wallingf Advent of Computing podcast has two episodes on Otlet.

The first is adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e

#adventofcomputing #mundaneum #otlet

शून्यताwigalois@dresden.network
2025-04-23

Eine IBM-Tochter kauft eine von IBM kontrollierte Firma. Warum? Who knows.

Ich weiß nicht wie man sich das vorstellen muss, traf sich Thomas J. Watson Jr mit sich selbst in einem leeren Büro und hat sich die Hände geschüttelt? (s a) #IBM #Flexowriter #Friden #AdventofComputing #Podcast #aoc151

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2024-01-28

“The Jupiter Ace: 40 Years On” [2012], The Register (theregister.com/2012/09/21/jup).

Via the excellent on : adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2023-12-27

Me reacting to Sean pronouncing the name of the text-editor as “vye” in the latest episode of the (adventofcomputing.com/?guid=7c):

Three paneled meme about three guys having an argument over how to pronounce “vi”. First guy says “vee-eye”, second guy says “vee”. When the third guy says “vye”, the other two guys bash him up.
Amin Girasolfluidlogic@oldbytes.space
2023-09-16

Sean Haas of the Advent of Computing podcast ought to get more attention around here! He's 116 episodes into a unique and rather excellent history of computing. He doesn't cover the mainline of computer history, but instead follows fascinating threads of his own. He tends to avoid the political implications of the work he describes, focusing instead on technical and administrative structures.

I'm thoroughly enjoying his two-parter on the history of #Prolog.

I liked his outline of 'first principles' languages, all of them #homoiconic: #Lisp, which operates on lists; #Forth, a tiny stack language; and #Prolog, a declarative logic language. The first and last of those were both originated for natural language processing.

adventofcomputing.com/

#PodcastPsaturday #retrocomputing #adventofcomp #AdventOfComputing #ProgrammingHistory #QuirkyHistory #OriginalResearch #NLP

The 'Advent of Computing' podcast logo. It uses six flat colours, reminiscent of silkscreen and mid-century poster design. On a mint-green background, a stylised electronic tube (valve) viewed side-on on the left butts up against a stylised 1970s era silicon chip package, viewed from the top (pins pointing away from us). The valve's yellow core displays a waveform in a circle, both red, with the red text "A C Podcast" superimposed. The brown top of the chip package shows the text "Advent of Computing" in the Verdana typeface.
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2023-03-21

A very nice episode on a very impressive program by Ivan Sutherland called “Sketchpad”.

It demonstrated graphical computing built with an object-oriented core, *before* these terms were invented. 🫡

Also, a teenage hacker in the 50s? 🤯

QT 🐦🔗: twitter.com/adventofcomp/statu

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2023-01-11

Nice trip down the and memory-lane with this of the always-good :

"Episode 99 - The Berkeley Software Distribution" (adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e).

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2022-02-23

I just assumed, based on terms like & , that is the study/use of computers. 😊

The episode in question is here:

adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e

It features , a , the , etc. in . Quite a change.

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2022-02-23

I was *this* many years old when I found out (thanks to the ) that “Cybernetics” barely has anything to do with computers:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernet

It also shares the same root (κυβερνάω) with for “to steer/navigate”.

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2022-02-10

Nice couple of episodes on the (adventofcomputing.com/) exploring the roots of , starting with :

adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e

adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2022-01-13

Unless…you’ve been listening to the 👌🏽 :

“The Most Important Computer You’ve Never Heard Of”, Ars Technica (arstechnica.com/science/2022/0).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2021-08-10

“Tracking Down DOPE, The First Computer Language For Normal Humans”, Sean Haas, Vice (vice.com/en/article/5dpq48/tra).

(Sean is the host of the well-researched on .)

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2021-07-24

On the & the company’s missteps (has a few factual errors – suggest listening to the as well):

“How The IBM PC Won, Then Lost, The Personal Computer Market”, IEEE Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2021-06-10

This of also pointed to “Old Computer Podcasts” (oldcomputerpods.com/), a directory/feed of & podcasts.

As if I needed even more entrapment…😩

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2021-06-10

that had been trying to make & sell a personal computer since *1973* (8 years before the PC).

They sold IBM 5100 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100) in 1975, but SCAMP (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable) was there in 1973.

Via the (adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e).

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2021-06-05

The follow-up on the origins of is fascinating (& corrects an error in the venerable “Fire In The Valley” ):

“Episode 37: The Rise Of DOS”, (adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e).

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2021-06-04

The episodes of the are well-researched & almost always contain surprising new information (for me) contrary to the usual folklore.

I hope Sean plans to write a or two on based on all this research. 🤞🏽

Highly recommended. 👌🏽

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2021-06-04

Another great 👌🏽 of the on the of the for micro-computers and a biography of Gary Kildall, as well as their fabled (but misrepresented) encounter with :

“Episode 36: The Rise Of CP/M” (adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e).

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2021-05-20

Somehow, I had never come across the fantastic system (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(c) before in that pioneered things *decades* before anything else.

Now I have, thanks to the :

adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e

adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2021-05-09

A companion , from the co-inventor of 8086, to read after listening to “Episode 50 - 8086: The Unexpected Future” of the (adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/e):

“Intel’s 8086” [2010], Stanley Mazor, IEEE Annals Of Computing (ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx5/85/5).

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