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Advent of Computing — 202 episodes

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Episode 185 - Is EMUL-8ion a Form of Flattery?

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Episode 184 - What Is A Programming Language?

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Dale Biagio - Hello, World!

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Episode 183 - A Digital Gap?

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Episode 182 - Spinning Memories

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Episode 181 - RAYDAC

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Episode 180 - You Wouldn't Magnetize a Tape!

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Episode 179 - Programming Block by Block

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Episode 178 - The Programma 101

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Dan Temkin - Forty-Four Esolangs

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Episode 177 - Getting Real with RSX

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Episode 176 - Is That Even UNIX?

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Episode 175 - SNOBOL? That's Disgusting!

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Episode 174 - The Bell Model I

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Episode 173 - Hybrid Programming

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Episode 172 - Analog/Hybrid

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Episode 171 - What Is a 4GL?

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Episode 170 - Thoroughbred/OS

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Episode 169.5 - Ben Zotto and the Story of Sphere Computers

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Episode 169 - Dellinger's Viruses

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Episode 168 - Halt and Catch Fire

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Episode 167 - The Tape That Unwound Itself

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Episode 166 - Beyond the PDP-11

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Episode 165 - LSI-11

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Episode 164 - LGP-30 LIVE! from VCF West

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Episode 163 - Ever Heard of the PDP-11?

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Episode 162 - CSIRAC, Australia's First Computer

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Episode 161 - The IAS Machine

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Episode 160 - What can Lunar Lander tell us about FOCAL?

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Episode 159 - The Intel 286: A Legacy Trap

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Episode 158 - INTERCAL RIDES AGAIN - Restoring a Lost Compiler

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Episode 157 - Only S1 Users Will Survive!

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Episode 156 - RPG, a Different Paradigm?

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Episode 155 - LINC

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Episode 154 - ACTing Up

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Episode 153 - The Keypact Mystery

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Episode 152 - LIVE at VCF - Reviving Retro Panel

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Episode 151 - The Friden Flexowriter

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Episode 150 - Starting Windows Up

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Episode 149 - IDRIS Is Not UNIX

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Episode 148 - Is BLISS Ignorance?

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Episode 147 - Molecular Electronic Computer

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Episode 146 - The Z4

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Episode 145 - Zuse's Mysterious Machines

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Episode 144 - RABBITS

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Episode 143 - The Haunted Hard Drive

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Episode 142 - OS and JEDGAR

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Episode 141 - Computer Ruins Grocer

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Episode 140 - Assembling Code

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Episode 139 - HUTSPIEL

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Episode 138 - Type-It-Yourself

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Episode 137 - Edge Notched LIVE

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Episode 136.5 - Data Center Disaster

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Episode 136 - Getting On TRAC

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Episode 135 - XENIX

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Episode 134 - Beyond the Punch

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Episode 133 - LIVE from Intelligent Speech 2023

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Episode 132 - The PDP-1

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Episode 131 - Computer... Books?

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Episode 130 - ALGOL, Part II

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Episode 129 - ALGOL, Part I

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Episode 128 - Cryotrons LIVE!

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Episode 127 - Nim

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Episode 126 - IBM Compatible (No, Not Those)

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Episode 125 - US v IBM

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VCF SoCal - Interview with Micki and Steve

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Episode 124 - The Full 360

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Episode 123 - The Jupiter Ace

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Episode 122 - To Edit Text

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Episode 121 - Arguments Against Programming

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Episode 120 - Simply COSMAC

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Episode 119 - The Batch!

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Episode 118 - Viral Dark Ages

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Episode 117 - What's in a Byte?

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Episode 116 - Monte Carlo

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Episode 115 - Digital Lifeforms

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Reading - The Story of Mel

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Episode 114 - The LGP-30: A Forgotten Machine

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Episode 113 - Prolog, Part II

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Episode 112 - Prolog, Part I

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Episode 111 - To Boldly Transmit

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Episode 110 - The Atari 2600

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Episode 109 - What's Up With Microcontrollers?

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Episode 108 - The Mundaneum, Part II

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Episode 107 - The Mundaneum, Part I

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Episode 106 - Digital Eyes

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Episode 105 - Apple's Growing Pains

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Episode 104 - Sketchpad

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Episode 103 - The Text Interface

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Episode 102 - Application of Ada

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Episode 101 - Origins of Ada

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Episode 100 - Updates and Mysteries

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Episode 99 - The Berkeley Software Distribution

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Episode 98 - The Canon Cat

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Episode 97 - What Exactly IS A Database? Part II

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Episode 96 - What Exactly IS A Database? Part I

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Episode 95 - Aspen Movie Map

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Episode 94 - Robots, and the End of Humanity

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Episode 93 - Fun and (Horror) Games

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Episode 92 - Copy Protection

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Episode 91 - Whirlwind

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Episode 90 - Where Did The S100 Bus Go?

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Episode 89 - Forth

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Episode 88 - BEFLIX, Early Digital Animation

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Episode 87 - The ILLIAC Suite

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Episode 86 - Fluidic Computing

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Episode 85 - Visi On, the PC GUI

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Episode 84 - VisiCalc, the Killer App

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Episode 83 - SEAC

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Episode 82.5 - Aaron Reed Interview, 50 Years of Text Games

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Episode 82 - Juggling Jobs with OS-9

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Episode 81 - A Ballad in 2600 Hertz

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Episode 80 - The Analytical Engine

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Episode 79 - ZOG: Military Strength Hypertext

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Episode 78 - INTERCAL and Esoterica

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Episode 77 - Magnetic Memories

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Episode 76 - Star Trek the (Unofficial) Game

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Episode 75 - A Cybernetic Future

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Episode 74 - The Elegance of LISP

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Episode 73 - IPL, AI, and Linked Lists

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Episode 72 - Viatron Topples IBM

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Episode 71 - 6502, The Mini-Microprocessor

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Episode 70 - The oN-Line System, Part 2

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Episode 69 - The oN-Line System, Part 1

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Episode 68 - Zork

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Episode 67 - Debug!

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Episode 66 - Viruses and the PC

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Episode 65 - Teletype, Teleprint, and Telegrams

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Episode 64 - Gemini's Tiny Machine

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Episode 63 - What's With The Wedge, Part 2

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Episode 62 - What's With The Wedge? Part 1

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Episode 61 - FRESS and Practical Hypertext

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Bonus Episode - Q&A

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Episode 60 - COBOL Never Dies

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Episode 59 - ALOHANET

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Episode 58 - Mercury Memories

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Episode 57 - Simulated Sumeria

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Episode 56 - TMS9900, an Alternate Future

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Episode 55 - Project Xanadu

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Episode 54 - C Level, Part II

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Episode 53 - C Level, Part I

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Episode 52 - THE SOURCE

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Episode 51 - The IBM PC

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Episode 50 - 8086: The Unexpected Future

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Episode 49 - Numeric Control and Digital Westerns

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Episode 48 - Electric Ping-Pong

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Episode 47.5 - Lars Brinkhoff Interview, Preserving ITS

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Episode 47 - ITS: Open Computing

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Episode 46 - Hacker Folklore

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Episode 45 - Keeping Things BASIC

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Episode 44 - ENIAC, Part II

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Episode 43 - ENIAC, Part I

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Episode 42 - IBM Gets Personal

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Episode 41 - Return of Viruses: The Spread

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Episode 40 - Spam, Email, and Best Intentions

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Episode 39 - Learning Along the Oregon Trail

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Episode 38 - JOVIAL, the Evolution of Programming

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Episode 37 - The Rise of DOS

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Episode 36 - The Rise of CP/M

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Episode 35 - Analog Computing and the Automatic Totalisator

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Episode 34 - 8080 VS Z80

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Episode 33.5 - Brad Chase Interview, Marketing Lead for Windows 95 and Much More

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Episode 33 - Becoming Portable

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Episode 32 - Road to Transistors, Part II

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Episode 31 - Road to Transistors: Part I

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Episode 30 - Coherent Is Not UNIX!

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Episode 29.5 - A Guided Tour of the Macintosh

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Episode 29 - PCM, Origins of Digital Audio

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Episode 28 - Applesoft BASIC, Microsoft and Apple's First Collaboration

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Episode 27 - Vectrex, Playing With Vectors

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Episode 26 - Memex and Hyperlinks

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Episode 25 - Making Disks Flexible, Part 2

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Episode 24 - Making Disks Flexible, Part 1

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Episode 23 - FORTRAN, Compilers, and Early Programming

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Episode 22 - Going Rogue

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Episode 21 - 8008: Intel's Second Shot

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Episode 20.5 - Cooking in Y2K

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Episode 20 - PLATO Part 2: An Online Revolution

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Episode 19 - PLATO Part 1: A Revolution in Teaching

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Episode 18 - Evolution of the Mouse

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Episode 17.5 - Bill's Problem with Piracy

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Episode 17 - The BBC Domesday Project

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Episode 16 - 4004: The First Microprocessor

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Episode 15 - Lost in the Colossal Cave

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Episode 14 - Creeping Towards Viruses

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Episode 13.5 - Minitel Research Lab Interview, with Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll

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Episode 13 - Minitel, the French Network Connection

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Episode 12 - Journey to Altair

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Episode 11 - Spacewar! (the Game)

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Episode 10.5 - The Jargon File

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Episode 10 - Networking for a Nuclear War, the Americans

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Episode 9 - Networking for a Nuclear War, the Soviets

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Episode 8 - Acorn and the BBC

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Episode 7 - Attack of the PC Clones

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Episode 6.5 - Edge-Notched

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Episode 6 - Digital Voices

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Episode 5 - Unix for the People, Part 2

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Episode 4.5 - Space Travel!

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Episode 4 - Unix for the People, Part 1

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Episode 3 - Mythic Macintosh

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Episode 2 - The Demo

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Episode 1 - Folded Spindled and Mutilated