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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.

SEAC

69 hours 15 mins; May 29, 2022

Aaron Reed Interview, 50 Years of Text Games

40 mins; May 22, 2022

Juggling Jobs with OS-9

60 hours 59 mins; May 15, 2022

A Ballad in 2600 Hertz

65 hours 48 mins; May 01, 2022

The Analytical Engine

73 hours 32 mins; April 17, 2022

ZOG: Military Strength Hypertext

71 hours 47 mins; April 03, 2022

INTERCAL and Esoterica

65 hours 42 mins; March 20, 2022

Magnetic Memories

69 hours 16 mins; March 06, 2022

Star Trek the (Unofficial) Game

61 hours 55 mins; February 21, 2022

A Cybernetic Future

67 hours 29 mins; February 06, 2022

The Elegance of LISP

69 hours 24 mins; January 23, 2022

IPL, AI, and Linked Lists

70 hours 30 mins; January 09, 2022

Viatron Topples IBM

71 hours 26 mins; December 26, 2021

6502, The Mini-Microprocessor

62 hours 35 mins; December 12, 2021

The oN-Line System, Part 2

65 hours 11 mins; November 28, 2021

The oN-Line System, Part 1

62 hours 44 mins; November 14, 2021

Zork

66 hours 35 mins; October 31, 2021

Debug!

63 hours 45 mins; October 17, 2021

Viruses and the PC

62 hours 53 mins; October 03, 2021

Teletype, Teleprint, and Telegrams

56 mins; September 19, 2021

Gemini's Tiny Machine

62 hours 59 mins; September 05, 2021

What's With The Wedge, Part 2

56 mins; August 22, 2021

What's With The Wedge? Part 1

58 mins; August 08, 2021

FRESS and Practical Hypertext

61 hours 45 mins; July 25, 2021

Q&A

52 mins; July 18, 2021

COBOL Never Dies

68 hours 5 mins; July 11, 2021

ALOHANET

64 hours 12 mins; June 27, 2021

Mercury Memories

67 hours 27 mins; June 13, 2021

Simulated Sumeria

60 hours 45 mins; May 30, 2021

TMS9900, an Alternate Future

68 hours 12 mins; May 16, 2021

Project Xanadu

65 hours 38 mins; May 02, 2021

C Level, Part II

58 mins; April 18, 2021

C Level, Part I

65 hours 20 mins; April 04, 2021

THE SOURCE

57 mins; March 21, 2021

The IBM PC

70 hours 12 mins; March 07, 2021

8086: The Unexpected Future

61 hours 53 mins; February 21, 2021

Numeric Control and Digital Westerns

59 mins; February 07, 2021

Electric Ping-Pong

57 mins; January 24, 2021

Lars Brinkhoff Interview, Preserving ITS

21 mins; January 18, 2021

ITS: Open Computing

51 mins; January 10, 2021

Hacker Folklore

56 mins; December 27, 2020

Keeping Things BASIC

57 mins; December 13, 2020

ENIAC, Part II

59 mins; November 29, 2020

ENIAC, Part I

56 mins; November 15, 2020

IBM Gets Personal

61 hours 43 mins; November 01, 2020

Return of Viruses: The Spread

49 mins; October 18, 2020

Spam, Email, and Best Intentions

55 mins; October 04, 2020

Learning Along the Oregon Trail

58 mins; September 20, 2020

JOVIAL, the Evolution of Programming

54 mins; September 06, 2020

The Rise of DOS

46 mins; August 23, 2020

The Rise of CP/M

52 mins; August 09, 2020

Analog Computing and the Automatic Totalisator

48 mins; July 26, 2020

8080 VS Z80

46 mins; July 12, 2020

Brad Chase Interview, Marketing Lead for Windows 95 and Much More

26 mins; July 05, 2020

Becoming Portable

51 mins; June 28, 2020

Road to Transistors, Part II

46 mins; June 14, 2020

Road to Transistors: Part I

50 mins; May 31, 2020

Coherent Is Not UNIX!

46 mins; May 17, 2020

A Guided Tour of the Macintosh

9 mins; May 10, 2020

PCM, Origins of Digital Audio

45 mins; May 03, 2020

Applesoft BASIC, Microsoft and Apple's First Collaboration

39 mins; April 19, 2020

Vectrex, Playing With Vectors

43 mins; April 05, 2020

Memex and Hyperlinks

41 mins; March 22, 2020

Making Disks Flexible, Part 2

39 mins; March 08, 2020

Making Disks Flexible, Part 1

42 mins; February 23, 2020

FORTRAN, Compilers, and Early Programming

51 mins; February 09, 2020

Going Rogue

45 mins; January 26, 2020

8008: Intel's Second Shot

31 mins; January 12, 2020

Cooking in Y2K

11 mins; January 05, 2020

PLATO Part 2: An Online Revolution

37 mins; December 29, 2019

PLATO Part 1: A Revolution in Teaching

38 mins; December 15, 2019

Evolution of the Mouse

33 mins; December 01, 2019

Bill's Problem with Piracy

10 mins; November 24, 2019

The BBC Domesday Project

33 mins; November 17, 2019

4004: The First Microprocessor

29 mins; November 03, 2019

Lost in the Colossal Cave

28 mins; October 20, 2019

Creeping Towards Viruses

29 mins; October 06, 2019

Minitel Research Lab Interview, with Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll

34 mins; September 29, 2019

Minitel, the French Network Connection

29 mins; September 22, 2019

Journey to Altair

32 mins; September 08, 2019

Spacewar! (the Game)

24 mins; August 25, 2019

The Jargon File

10 mins; August 18, 2019

Networking for a Nuclear War, the Americans

27 mins; August 11, 2019

Networking for a Nuclear War, the Soviets

27 mins; July 28, 2019

Acorn and the BBC

30 mins; July 14, 2019

Attack of the PC Clones

23 mins; June 30, 2019

Edge-Notched

6 mins; June 23, 2019

Digital Voices

25 mins; June 16, 2019

Unix for the People, Part 2

29 mins; June 02, 2019

Space Travel!

5 mins; May 27, 2019

Unix for the People, Part 1

23 mins; May 19, 2019

Mythic Macintosh

26 mins; May 05, 2019

The Demo

23 mins; April 21, 2019

Folded Spindled and Mutilated

26 mins; April 09, 2019

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