This episode I interview two developers recreating historically significant computers so that indivuals can try them out inexpensively and easily. First Oscar Vermeulen who created the Pidp-8 and Pidp-11 projects to recreate the physical appearance as well as the experience of the pdp-8 and pdp-11, computers critical to modern operating system history. Then I interview Josh Dersch about his work recreating the Xerox alto and Xerox star, machines that pioneered graphical user interfaces, WYSIWYG document editing, and the desktop metaphor.
Jun 21, 2019
39 min
Mike Mason takes care of the Call of Cthulhu line of table top roleplaying games for Chaosium and is the co-writer of the current edition of the game. We discuss the game, how to play, and some discussion of the Cthulhu mythos as well.
May 29, 2019
42 min
In this episode I talk to two projects digitizing and preserving works in the public domain. Musopen.org is an effort to provide zero cost and public domain recordings and resources for classical music. Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders rescues and digitizes texts from book scans and makes them readable for everyone.
Apr 18, 2019
37 min
An interview with the operator of the DVDBeaver review site which does detailed comparisons of different versions of classic home video releases. Gary talks about a variety of topics related to home video as well as some of his perspective from viewing thousands of home video releases.
Mar 20, 2019
53 min