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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: Mr. Omni
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Ken Fogel (@omniprof) about:
Digi-Comp I 3bit computer by Admin Scientific,
programming with small pieces of plastic,
a course in fortran,
a service person in a mail room working 20mins a day,
borrowing 5000 dollars and buying Apple II for 2000 dollars in 1980,
buying a floppy disk drive for 700 dollars,
starting with AppleSoft Basic by Microsoft,
learning assembly language to improve performance,
presentation at the university to introduce Apple computer,
controlling a water filtration system with Apple II,
writing conversion for word processors in PL 1,
WordPerfect, IBM MultiMate, WordStar,
starting at the University to teach COBOL,
teaching...