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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: New and Familiar at the Same Time
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with John Clingan (@jclingan) about:
Using TRS 80 and owning a Commodore 64, arcade 101 at high school,
computers were special at Chicago's schools, TRS 80 basic, C 64 for Christmas, typing-in applications from Commodore 64 magazine, writing self-modifying code with assembly on Commodore 64,
Peeks and Pokes in BASIC and sound chip, PC at college, Cameron Purdy (#16 airhacks.fm episode) to hack 16h to complete a program, because there was no way to save it,
misusing Lloyd as 60 words per minute fast Datasette, peek and pokes in a loop, immediate Unix love, PDP 11 at the computer center,
writing custom forms as a...