Advent of Computing

Last episode I said that Fourth Generation Languages were a topic for another time. Well..... more

I'm back to normal episodes, and I'm running out the gate with a weird one. Thoroughbred/O... more

I recently had the chance to talk to Ben Zotto about his upcoming book: Go Computer Now! -... more

In 1981 Joe Dellinger attempted to create the perfect computer program: a virus that sprea... more

Imagine a secret number that could be used to bring your computer to a screeching halt. In... more

Have you ever had a computer do something you can't explain? Have you ever thought a machi... more

My trilogy on the PDP-11 concludes with a look at the far flung places this computer can t... more

This episode we continue my series on the PDP-11 by examining how DEC adapted to the adven... more

Last weekend I had the chance to talk about the LGP-30 and my emulation project at VCF Wes... more

The DEC PDP-11 is one of the most influential minicomputers of all time. Some would even c... more

In 1949 CSIRAC sprung to life in a lab in Sydney, Australia. It was a very early stored pr... more

The first batch of digital computers emerge directly following WWII. The hallmark of this ... more

Lunar Lander is one of the best loves video games of all time. The game was created in 196... more

In 1982 Intel released the iAPX 286. It's was the first heir to the smash-hit 8086. But th... more

In 1973 the world caught it's first glimpse of INTERCAL. It's a wild and wacky language, s... more

The S1 operating system can do it all! It can run on any computer, read any disk, and exec... more

How do you make a computer act less like a computer? It sounds like some kind of riddle, b... more

In the early 1960s a neat little machine came out of MIT. Well, kind of MIT. The machine w... more

The LGP-30 is one of my favorite computers. It's small, scrappy, strange, and wonderous. A... more

When I was down at VCF SoCal I ran into a strange machine: the Keypact Micro-VIP. It's a t... more

A special treat from VCF SoCal. While visiting I had the chance to host a panel on restora... more

Have you ever looked at an old computer and seen a weird typewriter thing tacked on? In mo... more

In the modern day Windows is a power house, but that wasn't always the case. In this episo... more

This episode we are taking a trip back to UNIX world. We're looking at IDRIS, the first cl... more

In 1970 a little language called BLISS emerged from Carnegie Mellon University. It was a s... more

In 1961 Texas Instruments unveiled the Molecular Electronic Computer, aka: Mol-E-Com. It w... more