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Advent of Computing

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.

The Programma 101

62 hours 46 mins; March 22, 2026

Dan Temkin - Forty-Four Esolangs

51 mins; March 08, 2026

Getting Real with RSX

57 mins; February 22, 2026

Is That Even UNIX?

62 hours 22 mins; February 08, 2026

SNOBOL? That's Disgusting!

65 hours 59 mins; January 27, 2026

The Bell Model I

62 hours 50 mins; January 11, 2026

Hybrid Programming

62 hours 59 mins; December 28, 2025

Analog/Hybrid

65 hours 4 mins; December 14, 2025

What Is a 4GL?

54 mins; November 23, 2025

Thoroughbred/OS

60 hours 0 mins; November 09, 2025

Ben Zotto and the Story of Sphere Computers

52 mins; November 01, 2025

Dellinger's Viruses

26 mins; October 26, 2025

Halt and Catch Fire

26 mins; October 19, 2025

The Tape That Unwound Itself

27 mins; October 12, 2025

Beyond the PDP-11

60 hours 10 mins; October 05, 2025

LSI-11

54 mins; September 21, 2025

LGP-30 LIVE! from VCF West

52 mins; September 07, 2025

Ever Heard of the PDP-11?

58 mins; August 24, 2025

CSIRAC, Australia's First Computer

61 hours 5 mins; August 10, 2025

The IAS Machine

63 hours 18 mins; July 13, 2025

What can Lunar Lander tell us about FOCAL?

56 mins; June 29, 2025

The Intel 286: A Legacy Trap

66 hours 40 mins; June 15, 2025

INTERCAL RIDES AGAIN - Restoring a Lost Compiler

68 hours 22 mins; June 01, 2025

Only S1 Users Will Survive!

64 hours 40 mins; May 11, 2025

RPG, a Different Paradigm?

64 hours 10 mins; April 27, 2025

LINC

58 mins; April 13, 2025

ACTing Up

80 hours 48 mins; March 30, 2025

The Keypact Mystery

55 mins; March 16, 2025

LIVE at VCF - Reviving Retro Panel

60 hours 6 mins; March 02, 2025

Episode 151 - The Friden Flexowriter

60 hours 33 mins; February 02, 2025

Starting Windows Up

65 hours 6 mins; January 19, 2025

IDRIS Is Not UNIX

58 mins; January 05, 2025

Is BLISS Ignorance?

63 hours 21 mins; December 22, 2024

Molecular Electronic Computer

54 mins; December 08, 2024

The Z4

58 mins; November 24, 2024

Zuse's Mysterious Machines

60 hours 39 mins; November 10, 2024

RABBITS

21 mins; October 27, 2024

The Haunted Hard Drive

21 mins; October 20, 2024

OS and JEDGAR

19 mins; October 13, 2024

Computer Ruins Grocer

18 mins; October 06, 2024

Assembling Code

63 hours 46 mins; September 29, 2024

HUTSPIEL

66 hours 25 mins; September 15, 2024

Type-It-Yourself

63 hours 15 mins; September 01, 2024

Edge Notched LIVE

52 mins; August 18, 2024

Data Center Disaster

18 mins; August 04, 2024

Getting On TRAC

74 hours 40 mins; July 21, 2024

XENIX

67 hours 4 mins; July 07, 2024

Beyond the Punch

64 hours 10 mins; June 23, 2024

LIVE from Intelligent Speech 2023

41 mins; June 09, 2024

The PDP-1

75 hours 43 mins; May 26, 2024

Episode 131 - Computer... Books?

63 hours 5 mins; May 05, 2024

ALGOL, Part II

75 hours 32 mins; April 21, 2024

ALGOL, Part I

64 hours 54 mins; April 07, 2024

Cryotrons LIVE!

41 mins; March 24, 2024

Nim

60 hours 32 mins; March 10, 2024

IBM Compatible (No, Not Those)

73 hours 47 mins; February 18, 2024

US v IBM

70 hours 32 mins; February 01, 2024

VCF SoCal - Interview with Micki and Steve

29 mins; January 19, 2024

The Full 360

63 hours 31 mins; January 14, 2024

The Jupiter Ace

57 mins; December 31, 2023

To Edit Text

59 mins; December 17, 2023

Arguments Against Programming

64 hours 13 mins; December 03, 2023

Simply COSMAC

63 hours 8 mins; November 12, 2023

The Batch!

60 hours 28 mins; October 29, 2023

Viral Dark Ages

75 hours 35 mins; October 15, 2023

What's in a Byte?

63 hours 45 mins; September 24, 2023

Monte Carlo

61 hours 27 mins; September 10, 2023

Digital Lifeforms

68 hours 29 mins; August 27, 2023

Reading - The Story of Mel

11 mins; August 26, 2023

The LGP-30: A Forgotten Machine

66 hours 6 mins; August 14, 2023

Prolog, Part II

70 hours 20 mins; July 30, 2023

Prolog, Part I

68 hours 46 mins; July 16, 2023

To Boldly Transmit

63 hours 17 mins; July 02, 2023

The Atari 2600

67 hours 58 mins; June 18, 2023

What's Up With Microcontrollers?

62 hours 35 mins; June 04, 2023

The Mundaneum, Part II

56 mins; May 21, 2023

The Mundaneum, Part I

66 hours 7 mins; May 07, 2023

Digital Eyes

72 hours 24 mins; April 16, 2023

Apple's Growing Pains

78 hours 11 mins; April 02, 2023

Sketchpad

73 hours 39 mins; March 19, 2023

The Text Interface

61 hours 8 mins; March 05, 2023

Application of Ada

65 hours 12 mins; February 19, 2023

Origins of Ada

62 hours 25 mins; February 05, 2023

Updates and Mysteries

72 hours 56 mins; January 22, 2023

The Berkeley Software Distribution

69 hours 55 mins; January 08, 2023

The Canon Cat

70 hours 28 mins; December 25, 2022

What Exactly IS A Database? Part II

67 hours 41 mins; December 12, 2022

What Exactly IS A Database? Part I

60 hours 17 mins; November 27, 2022

Aspen Movie Map

66 hours 27 mins; November 13, 2022

Robots, and the End of Humanity

74 hours 55 mins; October 30, 2022

Fun and (Horror) Games

64 hours 16 mins; October 16, 2022

Copy Protection

85 hours 44 mins; October 02, 2022

Whirlwind

83 hours 16 mins; September 18, 2022

Where Did The S100 Bus Go?

80 hours 3 mins; September 04, 2022

Forth

76 hours 54 mins; August 21, 2022

BEFLIX, Early Computer Anumation

74 hours 38 mins; August 07, 2022

The ILLIAC Suite

68 hours 9 mins; July 24, 2022

Fluidic Computing

75 hours 33 mins; July 10, 2022

Visi On, the PC GUI

74 hours 32 mins; June 26, 2022

VisiCalc, the Killer App

67 hours 4 mins; June 12, 2022

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