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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