248: Peace, Love, and Old Computers

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Our good friend Steve Lin joins us to run down the trip he and Brad recently took to the Vintage Computer Festival: West Coast Edition, hosted in Mountain View, CA's wonderful Computer History Museum. Did you ever wonder about the strange arrow-key layout of early Soviet computers? Or how to build your own CRT out of a tube you found on the sidewalk? Or what it takes to rebuild the entirety of the early online service Prodigy from scratch? Or about the time Intel shoved a hundred 286s into a single computer? Then this is the episode for you! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	A lot of chatter on the Discord about last week's episode, Brad.
0:03.3	Oh, yeah.
0:03.8	I guess that could be good or bad, but I'll choose to believe that it's good.
0:07.0	It's good.
0:07.7	No, no, it was good.
0:08.5	People were sharing all of their tasks like their commonly used tools.
0:13.0	A bunch of good ones in that, in that chat.
0:14.4	We might have to do a follow up with that stuff.
0:16.1	There's one in particular. It might be out of scope for a cold open, but there was one I was introduced to in particular in there that I flipped my shit about. I haven't tried it yet. Okay. Should I get into it?
0:26.2	No, no, no. We'll save it. We'll talk about the QA next week or week after. But the other thing,
0:31.5	people, it wasn't just apps to talk. People also had some strong feelings about your American
0:35.3	cheese position. Oh, God. That's right. It was like half cheese discussion.
0:38.8	Yeah.
0:39.3	Like real strong cheese talk.
0:41.4	And the thing I realized that we didn't talk about when we were talking about your
0:44.0	reluctance to your dislike of American cheese is that you can Americanize pretty much
0:51.6	any cheese.
0:52.7	Okay.
0:53.3	Maybe we should take a step back here. And can you, can you just delineate what the
0:57.9	nature and process of American cheese is? Like, it's not, I've understood it to not be normal
1:02.2	cheese. Like, it's some kind of cheese products. Yeah, they call it a cheese product or a cheese
1:06.5	food. But basically what they do is they reduce the cheese to powder to just get the cheesiness,
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