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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: From Punch Cards (and Tapes) to Java
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Maurice Naftalin (@mauricenaftalin) about:
Shelton Signet CP/M machine costing £3000 in the 1980s,
discussion about the CP/M operating system which started in 1972,
Maurice's early career teaching programming at Wolverhampton Polytechnic (now University),
teaching Pascal programming language,
creating a membership system for a political campaign using his first computer,
Maurice's background as a chemist studying nuclear magnetic resonance (which later became MRI),
learning fortran to process data using Fast Fourier Transforms,
discussion about the NAG Library and challenges with array indices between C and Fortran,
programming in the early days using punch cards and waiting h...