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RCR Episode 257: The dot matrix impact
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: The dot matrix impact
Spending some time revisiting the calmer, quieter days when our printing was done by forcefully slamming pins through an ink ribbon onto perforated paper, pushed along by rotating spikes.
Topic/Feedback links:
- Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. Trailer
- Multimedia HyperGuide: A Windows 3.1 Podcast...
RCR Episode 256: Keep calm and carry on
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Keep calm and carry on
Episode 0 has arrived...
RCR Episode 255: The One With All The Ones
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Blake Patterson
Topic: The One With All The Ones
The Retrocomputing Roundtable has reached the end of its 8-bit run...
RCR Episode 254: Fortran, for better or for worse
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Fortran, for better or for worse
The year 1954 brought us Fortran (not named after the year though) to help us with our math, and development of SAGE to scan the skies for threats...
RCR Episode 253: Prebricked drives
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Prebricked drives
Episode 253 relates to 1953. Core memory begins its long dominance of the RAM space, the IBM 701 is introduced. A year that was kind of between things, so as one might expect the discussion keeps sliding into a discussion of beverages...
RCR Episode 252: UNIVAC liked Ike
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: UNIVAC liked Ike
Episode 252 relates to 1952. The year when UNIVAC correctly called the election early and nobody believed it. The year the paper introducing the Huffman code compression algorithm was published. And the 50th anniversary of all the things that happened in 1902...
RCR Episode 251: Memories of Whirlwind I
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Charles Mangin, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Memories of Whirlwind I
It’s been 71 years since 1951. So, we talk about some things kind of loosely related to 1951, including computer music, the Whirlwind I, and memory technology...
RCR Episode 250: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
It’s been 72 years since the year Turing published the paper that outlined the Turing test. So: Let’s talk about interactions we’ve had relating to artificial intelligence in some form or another...
RCR Episode 249: 2020 also
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, Michael Mulhern, and Blake Patterson
Topic: 2020 also
We enter the third year of 2020. Yet another New Year's, yet another opportunity to make the New Year's resolution joke...
RCR Episode 248: So long, 2021
Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Earl Evans, and Carrington Vanston
Topic: So long, 2021
At the tail end of 2021, we talk about our retrocomputing-based adventures during the year, with a little bit of a look ahead at what might come after...