Feb 19, 2025
Gunnar Gustafson rejoins the show to discuss audio synthesis in musical gear. He discusses family ties to some very early audio gear and he draws parallels to the evolution of musical synthesizers and the evolution of software development.
Feb 2, 2025
This is a video-added re-release of my interview with Rob Swindell. Rob is the author and sysop of the MS-DOS and telnet versions of the Synchronet BBS. He joined the show to discuss the genesis of the BBS, running his own BBS company, and the journey to an open source Internet version of Synchronet.
Rob's main site...
Jan 29, 2025
This is a re-release (with video!) of my interview with software engineer, writer, and publishing entrepreneur Jeff Duntemann. Jeff was the first editor of Borland's In-House Magazine "Turbo Technix" which was supplied to purchasers of early editions of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and similar Borland products. He was the...
Jan 20, 2025
Bruce Hoyt and his son Ben Hoyt discuss 70's-era home computing including the MOS KIM-1, The Ohio Scientific Superboard II, and the Ferguson Big Board CP/M machine, BASIC, assembly language, and Forth. Bruce's Pentominos solution has been used to test and benchmark Forth systems.
The GForth version is available at...