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Stray Pointers

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.


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...


Dec 31, 2024

Writer/illustrator Rick Lundeen rejoins the show to discuss his comic book series "The Bombardier" and his graphic novel adaptation of the classic Doctor Who story "The Daleks' Master Plan"

Rick's Ko-Fi page is here:
https://ko-fi.com/ricklundeen/gallery 

The Bombardier four-issue series can be ordered here:


Dec 27, 2024

With video! Software engineers Juan Vazquez and Cameron Cunning rejoin the show to discuss the 2024 Advent of Code, an annual programming competition.

Website for the Advent of Code competition:
https://adventofcode.com/  

Cameron's Github Repo for AoC 2024:
https://github.com/ccunning2/AoC2024  

Jim's Github Repo for...