Command Line Heroes

Stories about the people transforming technology from the command line up.

https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 26m. Bisher sind 82 Folge(n) erschienen. Dieser Podcast erscheint jede zweite Woche.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 7 hours 41 minutes

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Introducing Season 4 of Command Line Heroes


No one ever said hardware was easy. In Season 4, Command Line Heroes is telling 7 special stories about people and teams who dared to change the rules of hardware and in the process changed how we all interact with technology. The first episode drops January 28, 2020. Subscribe today and sign up for the newsletter to get the latest updates and bonus content.


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 January 14, 2020  2m
 
 

BONUS: Minicomputers


The Soul of a New Machine is a bestselling book that almost wasn’t. Hear about the obstacles author Tracy Kidder had to overcome in order to bring his engineering classic to life.


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 February 4, 2020  5m
 
 

BONUS: Mainframes


In the 1960s, Dartmouth saw the GE 225 as a massive opportunity for its students. Hear how a few faculty members and students made the mainframe widely accessible.


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 February 18, 2020  6m
 
 

BONUS: Personal Computers


Forrest Mims had a lot to say about Ed Roberts. Hear more stories about Ed's meeting with Paul Allen and Bill Gates, and the partnership they started.


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 March 3, 2020  8m
 
 

BONUS: Floppies


Moving from punch cards and paper tape to floppies wasn’t straightforward. Hear the story of An Wang, who pushed computer storage technology forward.


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 March 17, 2020  6m
 
 

episode 1: Minicomputers: The Soul of an Old Machine


They don’t fit in your pocket. But in their day, minicomputers were an order of magnitude smaller than the room-sized mainframes that preceded them. And they paved the way for the personal computers that could fit in a bag and, eventually, the phones in your pocket. 16-bit minicomputers changed the world of IT in the 1970s. They gave companies the opportunity for each engineer to have their own machines. But it wasn’t quite enough, not until the arrival of 32-bit versions...


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 January 28, 2020  29m
 
 

episode 2: Mainframes: The GE 225 and the Birth of BASIC


The computing industry started booming after World War II. General Electric’s CEO refused to enter that market. But a small team of rebel employees bent the rules to forge on in secret. They created the GE 225. It was a giant leap in engineering that pushed computing from a niche market to the mainstream—sowing the seeds for today’s tech industry. Before the creation of general-purpose mainframes, computers were often built to perform a single function...


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 February 11, 2020  30m
 
 

episode 3: Personal Computers: The Altair 8800 and the Dawn of a Revolution


The Altair 8800 is why we have computers in most homes today. It was initially designed for hobbyists. But a few visionaries saw massive potential in this strange little machine—and worked hard to make others see it too. What they created led to so much more than anyone could have ever imagined. Forrest Mims tells us how his co-founder, Ed Roberts, planned to save their struggling electronics company. His idea? A microcomputer made for hobbyists...


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 February 25, 2020  32m
 
 

episode 4: Floppies: The Disks that Changed the World


The floppy disk was one of the greatest breakthroughs in computing. It helped spin up the software industry with a format that endured for decades. And in some cases, it’s conserved treasures once thought to be lost forever. Before floppy disks came along, computing was weighed down by punch cards and magnetic tapes. Steven Vaughan-Nichols describes the magnitude of the changes brought by the floppy disk...


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 March 10, 2020  36m
 
 

episode 5: Smarter Phones: Journey to the Palm-Sized Computer


Few could imagine what a handheld computer would look like—or even do. But a trio of visionaries saw where computing was headed. To succeed in this new frontier, though, they would need to create everything from scratch, and throw out the conventional wisdom on hardware. Their creation, the PalmPilot, went on to break sales records. It showed the world what was possible and it helped people realize that the value in tech was shifting once again...


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 March 24, 2020  30m
 
 
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