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Our guest in this episode is Giovanni Campanella, the Industrial Automation and Robotics General Manager at Texas Instruments (TI). In this conversation, co-host Mike Oitzman speaks with Campanella about TI's extensive portfolio in industrial automation and robotics, highlighting key product lines and the company's collaboration with various robotics companies. Giovanni shares insights into the challenges of designing humanoid robots, the evolving demands in robotics, and the importance of safety in design. They also explore the expansion of robotics into new sectors such as healthcare and agriculture, and how TI engages with engineers to provide tailored solutions. The conversation concludes with a look at future trends in robotics and the skills needed for systems engineers in this rapidly changing field. ### Our sponsor this week is SDPSI. Let's dive into the critical role of precision, quality, and alignment in robotics design and assembly. At SDP/SI, our engineering experts go beyond the standard manufacturing process by reviewing your designs before production, offering cost-effective, space-saving solutions that streamline your entire assembly process. Discover how we help robotics companies achieve unprecedented accuracy and efficiency. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how SDP/SI can elevate your robotics applications. Discover the difference! Visit https://sdp-si.com/ to learn more.

Los años 80 fue una época en la que las calculadoras científicas se convirtieron en herramientas esenciales en la educación secundaria y universitaria. Hasta entonces, las matemáticas avanzadas y las ciencias dependían de cálculos manuales o de calculadoras básicas, pero la llegada de las calculadoras científicas transformó cómo se enseñaban y aprendían estas materias. Evolución de las calculadoras científicasLa llegada de funciones avanzadas: Calculadoras como la Texas Instruments TI-30 o la Casio FX-82 permitieron realizar cálculos más complejos, como trigonometría, logaritmos y raíces cuadradas, que antes requerían de tablas o gráficos manuales. La posibilidad de hacer estos cálculos rápidamente facilitó el aprendizaje de conceptos avanzados y permitió a los estudiantes concentrarse más en el entendimiento teórico. Impacto en la educación: Estas calculadoras cambiaron los métodos de enseñanza y el contenido de los programas escolares. Los profesores comenzaron a incluir problemas más complejos en sus clases, ya que los estudiantes ahora tenían herramientas que simplificaban el cálculo. Esto impulsó una educación más orientada a la resolución de problemas y menos centrada en la memorización de fórmulas. Accesibilidad y popularización: Con el tiempo, las calculadoras científicas se volvieron más asequibles, permitiendo que más estudiantes tuvieran acceso a ellas. Esto democratizó el acceso a la educación científica avanzada, ya que los estudiantes de distintas clases sociales podían trabajar con herramientas similares en sus estudios. Características innovadoras para la épocaPantallas LED y LCD: Las primeras calculadoras de los 70 tenían pantallas LED rojas que consumían mucha energía. En los 80, la mayoría cambió a pantallas LCD, más fáciles de leer y con menor consumo de batería, lo que permitió que las calculadoras fueran más portátiles y prácticas. Programación básica: Algunas calculadoras avanzadas, como la Casio FX-7000G (considerada la primera calculadora gráfica), permitían programar funciones simples, lo cual fue una innovación significativa. Aunque estas funciones eran limitadas, abrieron la puerta para los futuros modelos programables. Baterías de larga duración: Las calculadoras científicas de los 80 introdujeron mejoras en la duración de las baterías, lo que permitía que los estudiantes las usaran durante todo el día sin preocuparse por quedarse sin energía en medio de una clase o examen. Cambios culturales y educativosMenos dependencia de los libros de tablas: Antes de las calculadoras científicas, los estudiantes usaban tablas de logaritmos y trigonometría para resolver problemas. Con las calculadoras, esta práctica desapareció gradualmente, cambiando la forma de estudiar y reduciendo el tiempo dedicado a cálculos repetitivos. Controversia inicial: Al principio, algunos profesores y padres mostraron resistencia, ya que pensaban que el uso de calculadoras dificultaría el aprendizaje básico de los estudiantes. Sin embargo, con el tiempo, la tecnología fue aceptada como una herramienta valiosa que facilitaba el aprendizaje de temas complejos y preparaba a los estudiantes para un mundo cada vez más tecnificado. Preparación para el futuro tecnológico: Las calculadoras científicas de los 80 introdujeron a una generación de estudiantes a la idea de que la tecnología podría facilitar y mejorar sus estudios. Esta mentalidad se expandió, preparando a los estudiantes para aceptar y adoptar nuevas tecnologías en las décadas siguientes. Las calculadoras científicas fueron un primer paso hacia la integración de la tecnología en la educación. Su introducción en los años 80 no solo facilitó el aprendizaje de las ciencias, sino que también sentó las bases para la aceptación de herramientas tecnológicas en las aulas. Hoy en día, las calculadoras gráficas y el software matemático siguen evolucionando, pero todo comenzó con esas calculadoras científicas que revolucionaron las aulas de los años 80.

On this episode of Embedded Insiders, Senior Technology Editor, Ken, and Errol Leon, System Engineering & Marketing Manager of Robotics at Texas Instruments (TI) discuss the work of robotics in collaboration with humans and the role of motor control, board-to-board communication and sensor fusion in the future of robotics.But first, Rich and Ken recap a recent trip to Taipei for Computex 2024.For more information, visit embeddedcomputing.com

Welcome to a new episode of the Electropages podcast where host Robin Mitchell hosts a special guest from Texas Instruments (TI), Mark Ng, who serves as the General Manager for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles. The conversation kicks off with an introduction to Mark's role at TI, where he oversees the development of next-generation automotive technologies, including onboard chargers, battery management systems, and traction inverters. Mark's work is pivotal in shaping the future of automotive design, focusing on electrification and the integration of advanced electronic systems into vehicles. The podcast delves into the critical topic of vehicle safety, particularly in the context of electronic systems and autonomous driving. Mark discusses the challenges faced by the automotive industry as it moves towards more autonomous vehicles, emphasizing the importance of functional safety in electronic devices and systems. He explains the complexities of creating a safe, redundant, and reliable ecosystem that meets OEMs' functional safety goals, touching upon standards like ISO 26262 and different ASIL levels. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the future of automotive technology, vehicle safety, and the role of electronics in the next generation of vehicles. Learn more about the AWR2544 single chip discussed in the episode here: https://www.ti.com/product/AWR2544

We appear to be over the hump between hype and reality when it comes to GaN technology. Components and end products are readily available. But according to David Snook, the product line manager for  GaN products at Texas Instruments (TI), we are just scratching the surface of where GaN's potential lies. Hear more in this week's Embedded Executives podcast.

Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com ----more----   Introduction and Welcome --- Yucca: Welcome back to The Wonder Science Based Paganism. I'm your host, Jekka. Mark: And I'm Mark. Reflecting on the End of the Year --- Yucca: And today we are talking about the end of the year and the beginning of a new year. So once again, here we are at the end of a year, Mark: Yeah, so it's a good time for reflecting on what the, what this round of the cycle has been, and then looking forward into the next year we were saying before we started to record, we're still in that, that kind of held breath in the middle of, of the winter solstice season, at least in the, in the northern hemisphere, where Everything seems to kind of stop for a moment, even though there's this frenzy of activity in your personal life, most, many people are not working. There's just a kind of suspension of ordinariness, and there's this moment of what can be a really reflective still time, as well as a very festive time, Yucca: right? This episode should actually come out Christmas morning. So, early Christmas morning, Mark: always a tranquil and reflective time. Yucca: Yes, very relaxed, there's nothing going on.  Discussing the Timing of the New Year --- Yucca: Before we get into all of that, let's talk about the timing of the New Year. Okay. Because we're talking about the calendar switching New Year, which many people count as the New Year. For me, that's usually what I go with. That's the turning of the calendar. But for some folks, it's actually at Hallow, some people it's the Solstice, some people change at the Equinox, right? When's New Year's for you? Mark: I have two tracks for that, and they're offset by about ten days. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: For me, the beginning of the sacred cycle of the year is at the winter solstice. But then there's the calendar year, which, you know, as we say, when you're dating something, what number do you put at the end of the of, of the date that you're writing, that changes on January 1st, and so January 1st is also a hinge point, a moment when there's a transition, and that gives us the opportunity to do what we're doing today, which is look back, kind of review what that's all been like for the past cycle, and then imagine and dream forward into the new cycle. Yucca: Mm hmm. For me it's very fuzzy because since I don't have, typically I'm not working on the 31st or the 1st. The exact moment there isn't really a switch over, it's just this sort of fuzzy time period where it's like, oh yeah, it's the new year. I think, kinda, now I gotta get used to writing this other date, but it hasn't really happened yet. it Really takes about until February to get used to it being a different year. Mark: Mm. Reflections on the Past Year --- Yucca: So, and some years just don't feel like they happened, especially in the last few years because of how things were so different with COVID, where some years just, like, feel like they're missing. Mark: Yeah, 2020, I mean, when it happened, 2020 felt like the longest year ever. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: And then 2021 was like a continuation of the longest year ever, it was just more of the same. anD when the various Restrictions were relaxed, it almost felt like, it almost felt like that hadn't happened at all.  Impact of COVID-19 on the Perception of Time --- Mark: Like, it was just this sort of separate time when we were all indoors and staying away from everyone but it was outside of history somehow. Yucca: It was almost like we went from 19 to 22. Mark: Mm hmm. Yucca: Like, those, those years, I mean, they're there, but they're not in some ways. It's very, very odd. And this year So much has happened. It's actually quite difficult to keep track of what happened this year and what wasn't this year. Just thinking about what happened within this calendar year. It's, it's been a very full year. Mark: it really has. I mean, everything from floods and earthquakes and volcano eruptions to, you know, political happenings here and there and wars and humanitarian crises, you know, and of course that's what the news feeds us, which is all the bad news, Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: BuT I think it's fair to say that this is a very uncertain time for a lot of people. Yucca: Mm hmm.   Changes in the Work Environment --- Mark: I think about You know, in the, in the business world, in the economy, there's this huge movement of companies that are sort of hanging on by their fingernails to their old model and wanting to go back to 2019, and insisting that their workers come back to the office, and the workers are saying, actually, no, thank you, Yucca: Mm Mark: uh, this works much better for me in my life, and I'm not going. And it's, it's a very interesting standoff, Yucca: hmm. Mark: And it's one that I think the, the labor force, the working force is winning. I, I don't think that this idea about you have to be sitting in a chair in a cubicle in order to do your job is, is gonna succeed over the long term. Yucca: Right. At least within certain sectors. There are certain ones that are in person.  Mark: Oh, service industries, for sure. Yeah, I mean, those people have to be there and doing their thing. I'm thinking specifically of people that were in an office. Yeah, people who were in an office and then were able to leave, which of course is a tremendous privilege.  Challenges of Remote Work --- Mark: I now work fully remotely, and although there are things that are hard about it, like, for example, the fact that you could not register an organization to receive federal funding through, like, a cost sharing agreement or something like that, or a grant with the federal government if you don't have a physical address. Because the Patriot Act regulations consider that dodgy. So I, in order to prove that we really exist, I'm going to have to change the address on our bank account of my employer to my personal address, print out the, the, the bank statement that shows that address, and then change it back to the P. O. box that we have. Because we're a fully remote company and we don't have an office. So, it's just silly. Yucca: Wow. And you're not gonna, you don't have any zoning problems that are gonna come from that? Mark: No, Yucca: Okay. Yeah. Because there's certain areas where you gotta watch out for that, that you're not allowed to have particular businesses Mark: a Yucca: areas and, you know. Mark: I'm sure that that's true, but considering that it's going to last for less than 24 hours I don't really think it's a problem. The primary issue is, I think, they want to know where they can go to find a human being who is working for this company. And has some responsibility if they need to come after us for some reason. And I, there wouldn't be any reason they would need to come after us. I mean, we're a nonprofit organization. We can't even get in trouble with them for taxes. Yucca: Mm hmm. Yeah. But, but they can't go to a P. O. box. So. Mark: right. That's right. So we have to, I'm going to paint a target on my door and, and invite them to come find me. Reflection on Personal and Global Events --- Yucca: So, this year, though, there's things that have been happening on a big scale, Mark: yes, Yucca: and our personal lives, of course, are interwoven with that, right? But at the same time, a lot of what happens in our own lives really doesn't have a lot to do with the outside workings of, you know, what's happening with floods and hurricanes and wars and, you know, life just goes on. for listening. for regular folk.  Looking Back and Looking Forward --- Yucca: And so each of us, you know, us, you and me, Mark, and everyone listening, we've all had our own years, our own lives that have happened, and I, we were talking a lot about this last week, about the, about solstice being this wonderful time for reflection. I think that's a, we can continue that in, and, and think about the whole year. And what has that meant to us, and what are some of the lessons that we have learned? Because we have learned lessons, right? And what are those? Mm Mark: of those lessons are things that have crossed our minds consciously, right? Like, okay, this is a situation that doesn't work for me, this is a situation that does work for me this is an activity that really feeds me and helps me to feel energized and happy. thIs is something that is a total waste of time that I've been doing for my entire life, and I'm gonna stop, you know, those kinds of things. But then there's also the sort of the subconscious part, the, uh, the reflection on what can be called shadow work, you know, where you look at All right, there were certainly challenges this year. I mean, I don't think I know of anyone who didn't have a challenge this year. Did I ride those out, and what did I learn from them, and what did they tell me about myself, Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: right? What do they tell me about who I am? Because I think that one of the things that people are really struggling with right now is that we've been through a bunch of hardship with the pandemic and the Trump years and just a lot of really, Yucca: with the economy, Mark: yes, all that stuff. And you know, people, people still feel kind of beat up in many ways and very uncertain. And so, kind of digging down to find out, well, how do I live with that uncertainty? Am I doing okay? Am I, am I kind of walking, wounded, depressed right now? Not, not in a, in a So much a debilitating sense is just kind of a muffling sense, where you don't feel things as much as you used to, and the kinds of things that you enjoy doing, maybe you don't enjoy doing them quite so much. The Importance of Self-Reflection --- Mark: I think it's a good time for sort of a diagnostic take on, on how our mental health is going, and what in life is really serving us, and what in life is not. Yucca: Right?  Setting Goals and Intentions for the New Year --- Yucca: Yeah, and thinking about that, the choice and intention that we have in that, right? What do we want? What is serving us? And what, what do we want? How do we want to be in this life? Is that something that I choose or you choose to continue to do? Because it is When it comes to how we're responding, it ultimately is a choice, right? It's not a choice whether, to us as individuals, whether who's in office or what wars are happening, right? But, but how am I, how am I going to respond is something that I have some influence over, and this is just a good time to think about that. Yeah. Mark: Yes. How am I going to show up to reality? Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And a perfectly legitimate approach to that, by the way, is a nice dash of escapism. You know, play your Dungeons and Dragons and watch your Netflix. I mean, checking out for a little while is something that can actually help support you at times when things seem a little overwhelming or unbearable. I mean, you probably want to curate those experiences so you're not watching super depressing movies. Maybe that's not the road you want to follow. Yucca: Unless that does it for you, right? My, my partner will look at things that are like, will get on Reddit and, you know, see the, the terrible relationships and the like, am I the asshole threads and go, wow, my life's not that bad. Mark: life is good, yeah! Yucca: that to be very, like, helpful. Now, if I look at that stuff, I just get it. so worked up and it makes it worse for me, but for some people that really does help. So it, so, you know, know yourself on that. Does that help? Does that not help? You know, what are you consuming? And is that, is that leading you in the way that you want to be developing yourself right now or not? Mark: absolutely. Yeah, that's well said. So, I think there's an opportunity, I mean, one thing that I do on New Year's Eve is I have a dark mirror. Which is a piece of, a circular piece of heavily tinted glass, which I then painted black on the back and put in a frame. Actually first I put a piece of cardboard in the frame and then the glass over the top of that so that there would be some, some backing so that it would be less likely to break the mirror, um, but then I also drew various sigils and arcane symbols and stuff on the cardboard before I put the glass on top of it, so they're, they're down in there somewhere. Yucca: So there's these layers. Okay. Mark: You can't see them at all through the glass, but they're there. And what I like to do is to sort of, you know, light a candle and contemplate my face in this dark mirror on New Year's Eve. I've only done it for a couple of years, but it's a cool thing. You can see this shadowy outline of your face. And if you just keep gazing into it, it all sort of dissolves into geometric shapes. And you just Then you find your mind wandering to particular places and things and ideas and thoughts and, and it's a It's an opportunity to check in with the subconscious, to sort of dip in a little bit and find out, well, what's going on down there? So, that's something you could do, I mean, by candlelight, you could do that with a regular mirror.  Yucca: And then you get that lovely flickering with that. Mark: right, yeah. So, something to think about, or some other form of, you know, so called divination, like reading Tarot, or whatever those are. I like the ones, for this kind of work, I like the ones where you work essentially with random imagery and then see what your mind makes out of it, right? Like serumancy, dripping candle wax into water, Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: and it creates shapes as it, you know, cools. And you can see different animals and symbols and all that kind of stuff. Yucca: Yeah? Mark: Yeah. Yucca: Mm hmm. I like the imagery of that. Mm hmm. Mm Mark: So that's looking back. That's, that's the work of reflection, which I think every person who really wants to be happy and wise has to do some of that. You know, you got to look at yourself. You got to look at the world. And there's, uh, you know, there's, there's a level of simply coming to terms and saying, okay, that's real. Yucca: Right. Mark: another level of going. And I'm grateful for all this other stuff that's going on, right? So, you know, the world is a very complex mixture. It's not like thumbs up, thumbs down, and the same is true of ourselves as individuals. And just coming to grips with all of that and having a level of acceptance and gratitude is very helpful, I think. thAt goes back to that thing about the three big lessons that I talk about. The big Okay, the big thank you and the big wow, Yucca: Right, so there's the reflection component there's the looking back and there's also the looking forward. Now I think the looking back, you've got to be able to do that, I think that really does need to come first, or part of it, to be able to look forward to What is it that you want, right? Mark: yeah, Yucca: And as we talked about last time, we're kind of in this dreaming period. We may not really be planting those seeds yet, but we are deciding what are those seeds that we might want to plant. What do we need to do to prepare? Mark: right. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And that goes into the ritual things that people do at the New Year around resolutions and all that kind of stuff, right? Because I mean, A New Year's resolution is rooted in an imagined self that has changed. It's like, okay, I picture myself and I do not drink six cups of coffee a day. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: And that's great. You know, it's great to have a vision for where you want to go as a person, whether it's something minor or something major. Personally, I don't do New Year's resolutions, and the reason that I don't do them is that the popular framing of them is kind of like the little drummer boy game, where it's like once you lose, it's over. Yucca: hmm. Mark: And if you're really trying to do something hard to change yourself, you have to give yourself some slack. If you're trying to get sober, and you do that for a week and then you have a drink, you don't quit trying to get sober, you just start over, right? Yucca: Right, you get back up, dust yourself off, and keep going. Yeah. Mark: Yeah. Yucca: So I think that one of the things that sometimes we are very good at or don't have a lot of practice in is that, that getting back up part and planning in how, what could go wrong and how am I going to respond when it does go wrong. Mark: Good point. Yucca: And I think that If you are incorporating that into your planning, whatever it is, whether you're planning your financial future, or the process of quitting smoking or drinking, or all of those, any of those things, you are, you're being more realistic, first of all, about the world that we live in, because mistakes do happen. You're, you're building in resilience to being able to better achieve whatever that is. So I think that's a really important step that we forget to do. Mark: Yes. And the self compassion step in there as well. Not excuse making, but recognizing that we're all fallible and that any kind of real personal transformation that's the kind of thing that a New Year's resolution might be made about is not easy, right? It's just not easy. And, um, it is remarkable the degree to which our behaviors as humans are. The Power of Habit and Routine --- Mark: Habitual. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: You know, we have routines for our day, we have routines for making our coffee, we have routines for, you know, what we do about lunch, we have just lots and lots of routines, routines, you know, when we're getting ready to go to bed.  Yucca: And there's a very, very practical reason for all of that. So that all of that isn't taking up our space for the other stuff that we need to be doing. For all the other stuff we need to be thinking about. We're not, every time we make our coffee, we aren't going through those steps. We're not giving it the mental energy. Mark: Right. Okay, Yucca: something else. Mark: water. Yucca: Yes, oh wait, when I move my hand, yeah, that's all, that's all just ingrained so that we can do other things and pay attention to the things that might matter more. Now there's today probably not a tiger about to getcha, but we needed the space to be able to be aware for a possible tiger to get to. Now we're thinking about the interaction that we're going to have with our colleague or whatever we're going to tell to our uncle when they say that super offensive thing. But, yeah. Mark: Yeah. And so, because, because so much of what we do is this sort of pre programmed pathway of habit. It can be very hard to reprogram that stuff, because once you start the process, the rest of the steps are automatic. You do this, and then all of those other things just naturally follow. And to be able to be self aware enough in any given moment to say, wait, I'm not going to go any further with this. I'm going to do something else. That is an effort, and it, it requires some real focus, and if you're not able to do it all the time, it requires some real compassion with yourself, so that instead of feeling like a failure or, you know, a moral degenerate, you just feel like someone who is trying to do something hard and is learning how to do it. Yucca: Yeah. And another component is that, that doing those hard things is a skill, um, and sometimes we try to jump to, to a bigger task than we might be ready for, than a bigger change, right? Sometimes we might need to make some smaller changes, get good at practicing. That change before we go to something even bigger. Mark: Yeah. Yucca: And that's just going to depend on whatever it is that you're working on. Mm. Mm Mark: So, having said all that, I'm not a big fan of New Year's resolutions because, as I said, the idea is that it's like a piece of glass. It's like, if it's broken, then it's no longer of any use. And, So, to me, that's just, it's a very, well, frankly, a very Protestant way of looking at things. It's got a lot of judgment folded into it, and it just doesn't really work for me. Setting Themes Instead of Resolutions --- Mark: So what I like to do is to set themes for the new year that are kind of areas that I'm going to pay attention to and work to foster in my life. Yucca: Mm Mark: So, like, last year, My theme this year, actually, my themes were prosperity and security, um, because I hadn't had a job for a year and eight months at that point. I needed to get a job.  Yucca: Hmm. Mark: you know, and I did get a job and now I'm working in it and it's lively. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: It's if, you know, Folks that are listening to the podcast that have been on the Facebook or Discord communities know that I am about to be appointed as the Interim Executive Director of the environmental organization that I work for, and there are crises that we are dealing with that are very challenging, and they're going to land in my lap when the previous Executive Director leaves, which was already planned before the crises happened. So, it's not his fault, but still it's, it's a very lively time, and I'm not getting time off at the holidays that I expected to get because I've got to work through the end of the year when he goes. So, but I got a job, and it's a good job working for The protection of wilderness and, and wild places and biodiversity hotspots. So that's, that's pretty cool work to be doing. Yucca: Yeah, so you like to set themes instead of resolutions. And is that something that you do, um, at the same time as your dark mirror ritual? Or is that a separate thing for you? Mark: That's kind of a separate thing. And it doesn't necessarily have to happen like on New Year's Day. Usually I, I do it in the first week of the year, something like that. Just as things are starting to get rolling again, the, the normality is reasserting itself after the strange, still frenzied window of the holidays. Yucca: Mm Mark: Um, so yeah, that's, that's generally when I do it, and I'm still not clear about what my themes will be for the coming year. Um, but I've started thinking about it. Right? Yucca: hmm. Mm Mark: Uh, I, I do have the, the advantage of not having, I mean, I'm going to my Ritual Circles Yule Gathering today, which is sort of my big social Christmas y, Yule y thing. Um, but, I have no plans on Christmas Day itself, so You know, at least that I get off, uh, and I don't know, I'm, I'm gonna try to pry out some more time next week if I possibly can, but it really just depends on what's going on. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: How about you? What are your New Year's practices? Yucca: It's not particularly formal. I, I do like the resolutions it, as long as it has the what we were built, we were talking about built into it where it isn't like a, oh well, I messed it up and can't try again. But I'm, I'm more of a fan of making choices and resolutions. When I, when it comes up, right? So I think that this is a really important time of year to be doing reflection, but I try and do that throughout the year. aNd I'm a little hesitant about the doing anything where I say, oh, I'll wait till Start it on Monday, or start at the beginning of the month, or start at the beginning of the year, because that stuff actually means you don't really want to do it, right? You're not going to do it. If you're really going to do it, start now. Not tonight, not tomorrow, not Monday, now. So I'm kind of in that camp of just like, if I'm going to do it, yeah, I'm a kind of cold turkey person, right? Or pull the band aid off, where just, I'm just going to do it. But know that sometimes I will slip up. And then I have to be, and I can't do the whole, oh, well, I guess, you know, I slipped up, I'll, you know, I'll just do it again and start better tomorrow. Nope, you just gotta be on it. And that's just my particular personality that I've Mark: Huh. Yucca: Some people are very different with that. But I do like the idea of there being a time where people are reflecting on what they want and actively deciding to make a change. Whether that ends up working out or not is a different thing, but I think that it's really important to have that. So I value that that's something that our culture does. I think we could work on the skills around that. Mark: Yeah, that, that's, that's a good point, too. The, yes, there are skills required to have that kind of discipline and, and self compassion. You know, the other thing I wanted to put a word in for is We tend to think of New Year's resolutions as always being something that's like, you know, taking your medicine. It's some, you know, I'm going to abstain from something or I'm going to Yucca: Well, the classic one is I'm going to go to the gym every Mark: Yes. Yucca: the going to the gym is the classic one, right? Yeah. Or losing that 20 pounds. Mark: Yes. Whereas It's also possible to have resolutions that are about good things that you want to add into your life, right? You know, you, you, you could certainly say to yourself, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm gonna carve out Sunday afternoons and I'm gonna go for a hike every Sunday afternoon. That's what I'm gonna do. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And that's good for you. I mean, that, that, that would be a pleasurable experience that you'd be doing for yourself. You know, something that's additive to your life, you know, it could be I'm going to start having date nights and I'm going to have more sex in my life. It could be I'm going to make sure that I get to that restaurant that I love so much once a month. You know, any of those things. Yucca: And let's, let's take one of those as an example. Let's say it's the going for a hike on Sundays, right?  Planning for Success in the New Year --- Yucca: If that is the thing that you're thinking about, well, you can go, okay, well, What can I do right now to help set that up to be more likely for me to be able to do that? And for me, that would be, I'm going to put it in my calendar right now. It's pretty easy to do that. I have a digital cal I like, I have a physical and a digital, but my digital is my main one, then I copy it onto my physical and go, okay, I'm going to see that on my calendar every day. Mark: Yeah. Yucca: And then I'm going to think about, okay, well, what am I going to do If the weather is XYZ, right? Okay, I'm going to set it up right now that I have the equipment that I need to be able to do it. So if it's raining, I'm not going to go, oh, I guess I can't go out because I don't have a raincoat. I just got myself a raincoat, so I can go out, right? I've looked up places that I can go. So when you're in this, like, I'm, when you're in the moment of deciding that that's what you're going to do, you've got energy around it. Think about how you can set yourself up to succeed in that. Mark: Yeah, I mean, in the hiking example, I think one thing that you can do immediately is go get yourself a pair of hiking boots. Yucca: Yeah, right? Get yourself the hiking boots and figure out some of the places. Maybe find a group, if that's what you want to do. Maybe you don't want to go with a group, but is there a group that That is doing it, that you could, that you could join with and then have the positive peer pressure component to it, right? And we always say peer pressure is like this bad thing, but sometimes it's really helpful, right? Like, we've said it before, if this podcast was just one of us trying to do it, Wouldn't have worked, right? Because each week I know, oh, Mark's gonna be there waiting for me. Okay, I'm gonna do it. Whereas if it was just me by myself, we would have gotten a few episodes in 2020 and that'd be it. Right? Mark: Well, yeah, there is something about being accountable to other people. And creating whatever it is that you're trying to do to build some accountability expectation on the part of other people. I know meetup. com tends to have lots of hiking groups and, you know, people that like to do various outdoor things, so that's a resource that you can look for. Yucca: Right. And of course, whatever your goal is, I just grabbed that one because that was an easy one to talk about, right? But, but the point of it is to think about what's going to help me succeed, what might get in the way, how can I respond when that does happen? Because it, there will be a day that the weather is off. There will be a day that you're feeling sick. There will be, those things will happen. So, what are you going to do when they do? Mm Mark: right. And the good news is that as you start doing the thing and enjoying it, since we're talking about things that are additive, that are, that are, you know, that are pleasurable in your life, Um, it will feel weirder and weirder not to do it, because we are creatures of routine, right? And you can get that routine making pattern on your side if you just build up some consistency. Yucca: hmm. Mark: So starting at least with a social group, and I find that a social group is good for hiking. I mean, I like solo hiking a lot, but One thing that a social group is good for is that interactions with other people will tend to distract you from whether your body is hurting or not. Yucca: Yes. Mark: know, if you're having a conversation on the trail and your legs are starting to hurt, you'll, you'll tend to tamp that down to continue the conversation on the trail. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: So, you know, while you're building strength. Yucca: Right. All right, well, Mark, are there other things that you can think about for this turning of the year? Mark: You know, not really. My birthday is two days after New Year's Day, and so the two of them often, you know, they kind of get mushed together. And So the reflection piece tends to be, for me, it tends to be not just the last year, but also, like, life, Yucca: Right. Mark: What have I done? What am I doing? Where am I going? You know, all those kinds of big questions. So I do like to consider those as well, but I think that's really more of a birthday thing. You could do that at any time of the year, Yucca: Right, Mark: but a birthday is a good opportunity for it. Yucca: yeah, I think all of what we've been talking about is great for birthday whatever time of year your birthday is, Mark: Yeah. Even the resolutions, it's like a gift to yourself, right? You're gonna improve something. Yucca: new year, it's not the calendar's new year, but you're starting again, Mark: Right. Absolutely. Yeah. And yep, and mine actually falls on a Wednesday, like the day I was born this year. Yucca: Oh, I was also born on a Wednesday. Mark: Where are you? We're full of woe! Yucca: Yes. I've always liked Wednesday because when I was little, I learned to spell it as Wed nest day. And so every time I write the word, I say Wed nest day in my mind, even decades later. So I've just always enjoyed that day. Mark: That's great. Yucca: So, just the little things to make. Make things fun and enjoyable, Mark: Sure. Yeah. Closing Thoughts and Farewell --- Yucca: Well, we will see everyone again. I think our next episode will be the first. So we won't see all of you until the 2024. Yes. Wow. That sounds like a sci fi date. That doesn't sound real. Mark: God, it's, it's, well, you know, there's so, Yucca: Shouldn't it be like some Book series, or like, sci fi action should be named 20, 24. Mark: You know, there are times when my partner Nemea and I, we look at some of the technological things that are happening and we just say we're living in the future. You know, we remember what it was like in the 70s when a Texas Instruments TI 30 hand calculator was both expensive and rare and, and incredibly powerful, right? And now, you know, now we're doing custom gene based healthcare for people. Yucca: Yeah, Mark: It's like, it's amazing. Yucca: it's a cool time to be alive, right? That's something we should say, it's been, for all the challenges that are world is facing and that we're facing and the crises and all of that. It's also really, there's a lot of cool stuff Mark: there is, Yucca: and just the things we get to learn and the tools we have to study with and, and the opportunities that just didn't exist before. Mark: Right? Right. Yucca: Yeah, there's a, there's a lot, there's a lot to be really grateful for. Mark: Absolutely, and there's, of course, a lot of improvement that needs to happen on many fronts, and that's our responsibility as people who want a better world, um, but I mean, I've known some activists who have fallen into this terrible hole of everything is awful and they're just cynical about everything because it doesn't meet their perfect dream. I don't remember who said it, but something like inside cynic is a frustrated optimist. aNd, uh, no, a frustrated idealist. That was it, a frustrated idealist. And I really work hard not to have that happen, because I think it's such a narrow view of the world. The world is amazing. Life is an amazing ride. And yes, there are terrible things in it, and that's just how it is. The big okay. Yucca: Yep, Mark: Yeah. Well, Yucca, thank you so much. I wish you a Merry Christmas, um, Yucca: and a happy new Mark: a Happy New Year. Yes whatever your celebrations are over the course of the next week I hope that you enjoy them and spend them loved and warm and cozy. Yucca: and we'll see y'all next year.   

Join us on an enlightening tech odyssey with Coleen Shane, a trans woman who's made her mark in the realm of information security and networking. From the humble beginnings of tinkering with a Texas Instruments TI-99 in the 80s to a successful career at the VA hospital in Indianapolis, Coleen's journey is an inspiring tale of determination and passion. She shares insights from her experience and illuminates us on the delicate equilibrium between convenience and security.Ever wondered how to strike the right balance between ease of use and ensuring your digital world is secure? This is a key challenge we dissect with Coleen. We also delve into the murky waters of phishing attempts, exploring how to identify and mitigate them. Coleen's vast experience lends a wealth of knowledge on this pertinent issue. As our digital landscape evolves, the importance of security continues to heighten, a reality that Coleen emphasizes repeatedly.In the wake of the AI boom, concerns about privacy and security are more significant than ever. We dissect the pros and cons of AI, its potential for good, and the inherent security risks that come with it. We further explore the importance of prioritizing security in software development. Wrapping up with an insightful comparison of Apple and Google's differing approaches to security and privacy, this episode will leave you with a fresh perspective on the complexities of the digital world and the importance of security. Tune in for a captivating conversation packed with nuggets of wisdom from the tech world.The Gaming BlenderHave you ever wanted to design your own video game?Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify BuzzcastKeep up to date on the latest podcasting tech & news with the folks at Buzzsprout!Listen on: Apple Podcasts Support the show

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DAC-Cast hosts are joined by Dr. Walden "Wally" Rhines for this episode leading up to his keynote presentation at #60DAC. Wally is widely recognized as an expert in business value creation and technology for the semiconductor and electronic design automation (EDA) industries. He was CEO of Mentor Graphics (a “Big Three” EDA company with $1.3B+ revenue) for 24 years, has served on the boards of five public companies, managed the semiconductor business of Texas Instruments (TI), and is a spokesperson, writer and highly-sought-after speaker for the high-tech industry. Dr. Rhines currently serves as President and CEO of Cornami, Inc., consults for investors, corporations and the U.S. government on strategic directions, value creation and technology and serves on public and private boards.

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Episode 45 of the Space Industry podcast is a discussion with Michael Seidl, Systems Engineer with a focus on space applications, and Adrian Helwig, Analog Field Application Engineer, of satsearch member Texas Instruments (TI).TI is a global electronics manufacturer and innovation company with a strong interest in space. In this podcast Michael and Adrian delve into the myriad of decisions that face engineers looking to develop optimally-performing data acquisition system for space. We cover: The typical compromises that designers face when developing solutions for data acquisition system function How to assess the entire signal chain to boost performance Guidance on implementing effective fault detection and protection protocols Advice and resources for assessing different circuit setups and data architectures to optimize performance You can find out more about Texas Instruments here on their satsearch supplier hub.And if you would like to learn more about the space industry and our work at satsearch building the global marketplace for space, please join our newsletter.[Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/when-we-get-there License code: Y4KZEAESHXDHNYRA] 

Chip Shortage is a feature video by Adafruit's Ladyada to highlight items that are in short supply or possibly "unobtainium" (with no known return date to the market). This week it is the Texas Instruments TI TPS61090 https://www.ti.com/product/TPS61090 https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments/TPS61090RSAR/566911 (55 week lead time!!!) Used in the Adafruit PowerBoost 500 Charger - Rechargeable 5V Lipo USB Boost @ 500mA+ https://www.adafruit.com/product/1944 Ordered 6,000 in October 2021, now pushed to July 2023! Please send us this order. --------------------------------------- Adafruit is working night and day to keep products in stock and deliver new products during the chip shortage. Visit https://www.adafruit.com/new to see what new items have been released to find redesigned products with chips that are available. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/

Episode 40 of the Space Industry podcast is a discussion with Michael Seidl, Systems Engineer with a focus on space applications, and Adrian Helwig, Analog Field Application Engineer, of satsearch member Texas Instruments (TI).TI is a global electronics manufacturer and innovation company with a strong interest in space. In this podcast Michael and Adrian delve into how to enhance the performance of phased array antennas in satellite communications (satcom) applications by optimizing beamforming using gigahertz-clocking tree solutions. We cover: The typical challenges that designers face in the development of phased array antennas How clocking solutions can achieve higher performance while maintaining tight synchronization across all channels Use of the JESD204 standard for high-speed data-capture designs using FPGA How gigahertz-clocking tree solutions in phased array antennas in space applications may evolve in years to come You can find out more about Texas Instruments here on their satsearch supplier hub.And if you would like to learn more about the space industry and our work at satsearch building the global marketplace for space, please join our weekly newsletter.[Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/when-we-get-there License code: Y4KZEAESHXDHNYRA] 

TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Hummmm" Technology news of the week for June 12th - June 18th, 2022.Today on the show, does Goggle have a sentient AI? A former Google engineer says yes; as others say, it is just programmed to sound 'real'. What is the truth? Delivery Services are about to change, and we will tell you what the FDA just approved on your Apple watch. Then Phil Hennessy continues his third part of "Phil's Electric vs. Gas Vehicles" segment. In addition, we have our standard features, including "This Week in Technology," | "Mike's Mesmerizing Moment," and, of course, our "Pick of the Day" whiskey tasting. So, sit back, raise a glass, and welcome to TechTime with Nathan Mumm.Episode 105:  Starts at 1:08 --- [Now on Today's Show]: Starts at 4:39--- [Top Stories In The First Five Minutes]: Starts at 7:34Google engineer believed chatbot had become an 8-year-old child. Experts say it's not sentient — just programmed to sound 'real' - https://tinyurl.com/vyubxy8rAfter years of setbacks, Amazon is finally launching its drone delivery service later this year. - https://tinyurl.com/bdzz3u27 Panera Opens the First of Its Restaurants for Digital-Only Pick Up and Delivery - https://tinyurl.com/mtnsrrz6FDA clears Rune Labs to use the Apple Watch to monitor Parkinson's - https://tinyurl.com/bdzz3u27   --- [Pick of the Day - Whiskey Tasting Review]: Starts at  16:10 Jack Daniels Black | 80 Proof | $22.95 --- [Technology Insider]: Starts at 18:31Google engineers believed chatbot had become an 8-year-old child. Experts say it's not sentient — just programmed to sound 'real' - We hear from technology expert Nick Espinos, Phill Hennessy, and our beloved hosts. --- [This Week in Technology]: Starts at 38:20 June 11, 1978, Texas Instruments Inc. introduces the Speak and SpellThe Speak & Spell, a talking educational toy featured the first electronic duplication of the human voice on a single chip of silicon. It transformed digital information processed through a filter into synthetic speech and could store more than 100 seconds of linguistic sounds.The Speak & Spell was created by a small team of engineers led by Paul Breedlove, himself an engineer, with Texas Instruments (TI) during the late 1970s. Development began in 1976 with an initial budget of $25,000, as an outgrowth of TI's research into speech synthesis. The completed proof version of the first console utilized TI's trademarked Solid State Speech technology to store full words in a solid state format similar to the manner in which calculators of the time stored numbers.   --- [Marc's Mumbles Whiskey Details]: Starts at 43:32--- [Ask the Expert - Phil Hennessy]: Starts at 45:22Phil's Electric vs. Gas Vehicles Technology Insights Part 4 of 5.  Today we are spending more time on technology elements of the EV batteries in "Phil's Electric vs. Gas Vehicles Technology Insights.”   --- [Mike's Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by StoriCoffee®]: Starts at 52:41 --- [Pick of the Day]: Starts at 54:18Jack Daniels Black | 80 Proof | $22.95 Mike: Thumbs Up Nathan: Thumbs Up

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Welcome to an episode of ARG well calculated to blow your mind! This week is an oddball as we look at Games on Calculators...specifically in this case games for the Texas Instruments TI-83 / TI-84 line of calculators. First THE BRENT does a DEEP dive into gaming on calculators, as well as his PERSONAL wacky exploits, and then it's game time, as we look at zDOOM and zTetris! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/arg-presents/support

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IBM launches the PC The morality police have video games in their sights Venture Capital wants a piece of the software market These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in August of 1981. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Peter is on vacation so we have the pleasure of Mads from the Retro Asylum to join us. http://retroasylum.com and https://playthroughpod.com/ Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com Time Codes: 7 Minutes in Heaven: 5:00 Corrections: 11:10 Time Jump: 28:20 Links: 7 Minutes in Heaven: Video version - https://www.patreon.com/posts/55259489 https://www.mobygames.com/game/robot-war Ed Zaron Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/30697517 Corrections: July 1981 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/54043323 They Create Worlds Nuttings Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/dave-nutting-50562473?l=de https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Fury https://warnerbros.fandom.com/wiki/Warner_Communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/23_Datamaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_(Nintendo) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game) 1951: Brigadeer General Leighton Davis builds Dynamic Air War Game Omaha Evening World Herald August 24, 1951, pg. 29 http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,815346,00.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_I._Davis https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107302/lieutenant-general-leighton-i-davis/ https://patents.justia.com/patent/4239227 1961: Plato is telling on truants Electronic 'Teacher' Tattles on Students Who Skip Tasks The Times-Picatune, New Oreleans, LA, August 24, 1961 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) 1971: ENIAC turns 25 https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/01/archives/the-electronic-computers-inventors-mauchly-and-eckert-to-mark.html?searchResultPosition=5 https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/09/archives/the-computer-at-age-25.html?searchResultPosition=4 https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/04/archives/critics-mark-25th-year-of-the-computer-industry-focuses-on-problems.html?searchResultPosition=8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC September 1970 jump (First computer with semiconductor RAM) - https://www.patreon.com/posts/42700691 1981: Summer CES breaks records Playthings, August 1981, pg. 36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show#1981 Video game bans sweep the USA RePlay August 1981, pg. 25 UK anti-video game law defeated Play Meter August 15 1981, pg. 34 Atari gets injunction against General Computer Corporation RePlay August 1981, pg. 99 Vending Times, August 1981, pg. 46 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Pac-Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Computer_Corporation Bally gets into the pizza biz https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/25/business/bally-acquires-pizza-chain.html https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/05/business/show-time-at-pizza-chain.html http://www.greatadventurehistory.com/Forums/index.php?/topic/4528-ballys-tom-foolery/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShowBiz_Pizza_Place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Manufacturing Drop in electronics sales begins to affect corporate bottom lines Playthings August 1981 pg. 13 Michael Katz Interview Part 1 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/35169258 Greg Fischbach Interview Part 1 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/46578120 Greg Fischbach Interview Part 2 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/47720122 IBM launches the PC https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/13/business/big-ibm-s-little-computer.html?searchResultPosition=4 https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/16/business/the-week-in-business-producer-prices-continued-easing-of-inflation.html?searchResultPosition=1 https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/business/next-a-computer-on-every-desk.html?searchResultPosition=4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20 Xerox launches the 820 https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-08/page/n8/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing198108/page/n11/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_820 TI dumps the TI99/4 for the 99/4A https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-08/page/n8/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A#99/4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV0t4QIINLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK9VU1aJvTI Acorn advertises the BBC Micro https://archive.org/details/YourComputer_198108 pg. 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro Commodore prepping UK launch of the Vic https://archive.org/details/YourComputer_198108 pg. 8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL WH Smith to sell microcomputers https://archive.org/details/YourComputer_198108 pg. 9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHSmith Venture Capital is investing in microcomputer software https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/31/business/venture-capitalists-new-role.html?searchResultPosition=9 July 1981 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/54043323 Ed Zaron Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/30697517 Ken Williams Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/42700706 Michael Katz Interview Part 1 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/35169258 Creative Computing celebrates the 20th anniversary of SpaceWar! https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-08/page/n59/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar! Frank Herbert gives computer advice https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-08/page/n222/mode/1up https://books.google.de/books/about/Without_Me_You_re_Nothing.html?id=izcLAQAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-meeting-of-spacewar/ Recommended Links: The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play and Enzo Maida.

Shareable link to the document (has all of the mathematical examples that will be discussed in both this episode and the following episode): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VfEVBscCPTfoyTDyv4ZRFJYL9Luzyd1UHvjxzz-uwpg/edit?usp=sharing References: Derivative - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative Power Rule - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_rule All derivative calculations were checked using this website https://www.derivative-calculator.net/ Product Rule - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_rule Quotient Rule - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient_rule Chain Rule - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_rule Integral - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral Line Integral (AKA a Contour Integral in Complex Analysis) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_integral All integral calculations were checked using this calculator (can also calculate derivatives, but I was not near the calculator when I was working on the derivative portion of the chapter): https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-TI-84-Graphing-Calculator/dp/B00TFYYWQA Reverse Power Rule - KhanAcademy https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-calculus-ab/ab-integration-new/ab-6-8a/e/intro-to-integration Riemann Integral - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_integral Fundamental Theorem(s) of Calculus - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calculus Differential Equation - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_equation Partial Differential Equation - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_differential_equation

Welcome to Episode 103 Main Topic Getting into IT series: Nate What is Nate's story, How did he get into computers? How did that lead into IT?  What path has his career taken? Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBS https://www.themajorbbs.com/phoenix/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.51 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux https://www.icq.com/  It's kinda russian now... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ https://www.enlightenment.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfterStep http://www.afterstep.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare Announcements Patreon Update 21 Patrons, $108/mo Arinomi Andrew Tatro rootisgod Bruce Robert Matt David S0l3mn Trooper_Ish LinuXsys666 gimpyb Mark DeMentor  Jon Marc Julius Andi J Charles 22532 Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin  Reviews   Chat Nate and Marc diverge into Everquest, and a few other games.    [unclemarc] With the summer, nerd stuff is weak Although I smoked a mean pork butt last weekend for a Baby-B-Q I have not killed my 3D printer yet. Yay! Considering doing a No Man's Sky VR Permadeath Playthrough - stream the whole thing https://www.nomanssky.com/ Dan Vasc - https://www.youtube.com/c/DanVasc   [Nate] Currently tearing apart the suspension on my Jeep. Replacing these stupid C by GE bulbs.  Trying to build a cool hex-lamp for the office. News https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/9/22526266/facebook-smartwatch-two-cameras-heart-rate-monitor  https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/26/freenode_irc_takeover/ https://in.pcmag.com/security/143104/meat-supplier-jbs-pays-ransomware-hackers-11-million-despite-having-backups  https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/07/us/biden-news-today Crypto rap battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaMJi1_1tkA   Watch us live on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month! Subscribe and hit the bell! https://www.youtube.com/IronSysadminPodcast  OR https://twitch.tv/IronSysadminPodcast   Discord Community: https://discord.gg/wmxvQ4c2H6  Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.twitter.com/ironsysadmin Subscribe wherever you find podcasts! And don't forget about our patreon! https://patreon.com/ironsysadmin   Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/ 

As an engineer, you probably know Texas Instruments (TI) as the maker of your favorite calculators in the world, such as the TI-85. Who doesn't love expensive graphing calculators that help make difficult math easy? Well, maybe not easy, but slightly easier. It turns our that calculators are only a small part of what Texas Instruments does! In fact, they are one of the top 10 semiconductor producing companies in the world, with analog chips and embedded processors accounting for over 80% of their revenue. Join us to learn all about how Texas Instruments got started, what else they do other than make amazing calculators, and of course, war time connections!!

As part of Business Class News' spotlight to corporations that support education, our Publisher, Karl Woolfenden spoke to Peter Balyta, at Texas Instruments (TI), who is the President of their Education Technology side of their business.TI is committed to providing students opportunities and Peter spoke about the importance of STEM as being part of the educational process:"I [PETER BALYTA] believe STEM skills or survival skills, and the future depends on kids being STEM smart right now. We live in a technology centric world. And this requires a STEM literate population. For our kids, this means that they'll need to manage in a world that increasingly relies on technology, the current global public health crisis. We need for today's students to become tomorrow's problem solvers and leaders. So [that means] scientists, doctors, engineers, we need them to find and implement solutions to our planet's challenges. So STEM literacy is no longer optional. And coding isn't just for nerdy kids anymore, it's a skill that all kids will likely no matter what career they choose, and so I see coding as a third language, or a second language that all students should know."You can listen to the full interview on how TI is impacting the educational space with their commitment here.  You can also listen to it on Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio and Google Podcasts, just search for Business Class News.About Peter BalytaPeter Balyta, is corporate vice president of academic engagement and president of the Education Technology business at Texas Instruments. He is responsible for leading global teams that focus on the mission of improving the teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects. This includes several groups and programs that span TI, all of which aim to help students develop a strong educational foundation, setting them up for future success in a workforce that increasingly demands STEM skills.Balyta holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and technology education and a B.Ed in mathematics and physical education from McGill University; a master of science in mathematics education from Concordia University; and a master of business administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. Before starting his career at TI in 2000, Balyta was a mathematics educator and district supervisor for mathematics, science, health, and physical education. In 1996, he was recognized as a Teachers Teaching with Technology (T3) national instructor in the U.S. and Canada. In his roles at TI, he has brought his enthusiasm and experience from the classroom to support and drive TI’s education vision of equipping and inspiring future generations of leaders and engineers.Balyta is the recipient of the 2017 UT Dallas Green and Orange Award for his support and service to University of Texas at Dallas where he sits on the university’s Executive Board, a 2020 TI Founders Community Impact Award recipient for his volunteer efforts, a Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas 2020 Honor Pin recipient where he is a member of GSNETX's Executive Committee, serving as chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. Peter is the proud chair of McGill University’s Faculty of Education Advisory Board and a member of McGill’s Bicentennial Campaign Cabinet.

Inoffensive in every region of the world. Meeting me is a completely different story. Name is Trey. I have been listening to HPR for about a year and after hearing repeated pleas for episodes, I thought I would record some of my own. I cannot guarantee quality of production nor content, but I hope you find them entertaining. This episode is simply an introduction with a little bit of information about me My love of computers began 40 years ago when my parents scrimped and saved to purchase a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a computer. I began programming in BASIC, saving programs to audio cassette tapes. I remember buying magazines to get new programs to enter, save, edit, and turn into something different. Soon I expanded the computer to include 32K of RAM and an RS232 card which allowed me to connect a 300 BAUD modem and connect to bulletin board systems (BBS). BBS became my connection to the world. I later upgraded to a Commodore 64, which gave me a floppy disk. Much faster than saving to tape. I studied electronics & computers in college, then went to work for a large computer vendor, traveling all over fixing computers, networks, and peripherals. After about a decade, I joined a different company where I worked in systems administration and engineering, with a focus on information security. I have worked as security analyst, incident responder, security engineer, and security architect, then built out and managed the SOC for a large organization. Today, I am still focused on information security and I also dabble in clock repair, Ham radio, electronics, and photography. I may record some episodes on some of these topics in the future. Thank you for listening to me prattle on about myself, and have an awesome day.

The Integrated Circuit is born, Home computers storm CES and Atari orders massive chip inventory These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in March of 1981. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Peter is still out "on assignment" so we are joined again by Jon from the Retro Game Squad. http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com Links: Jon's 7 Minutes in Heaven https://www.mobygames.com/game/asteroids-deluxe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEvQCLhkwGg Corrections: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/transcripts/tcw114 https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/sierra-hi-res-adventures https://www.mobygames.com/company/aventuras-ad https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,82501/ https://archive.org/details/SoftwarePeopleDougCarlston/page/n9/mode/2up 1961: Fairchild introduces the IC https://www.nytimes.com/1961/03/15/archives/fairchild-introduces-circuits-in-miniature.html?searchResultPosition=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor The libraries of the year 2000 will be on computer tape https://www.nytimes.com/1961/03/28/archives/librarian-of-2000-may-be-computer-mathematician-gives-plan-for.html?searchResultPosition=2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Kemeny 1971: Film editing goes non-linear thanks to computers https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/14/archives/computer-to-save-millions-in-film-editing-due-soon-computer-to-save.html?searchResultPosition=11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_editing#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMX_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMX_600 https://web.archive.org/web/20080210020634/http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/offline/cmx600.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npExd1D6mtI George Lucas makes his feature film debut with THX1138 https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/12/archives/lucass-thx1138love-is-a-punishable-crime-in-future.html?searchResultPosition=66 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/21/archives/wandas-a-wow-sos-thx-wandas-a-wow-sos-thx.html?searchResultPosition=121 1981: Electronic toys dissapoint at CES but video games come out swinging Toys Hobbies & Crafts March 1981, pg. 14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/tom-dusenberry-interview Microcomputers take the stage at CES https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1981-03/page/n51/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_MZ http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-japanese-pc-industry/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF_Electronics_Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Astrocade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRASS_(programming_language) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFnD_K3abOc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision#Keyboard_Component https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/dan-daglow-interview-part-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-8-bit/asteroids_ https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-8-bit/missile-command_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram_(video_game) https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/michael-katz-interview-part-1 https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/tom-dusenberry-interview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20 https://www.mobygames.com/company/commodore-business-machines-inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80 http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/sir-clive-of-zx/ https://www.mobygames.com/game/rockys-boots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9918 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/1979-fcc-reform-special-feat-quarterpast38 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-8000_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboGrafx-16 Atari orders chips from Commodore https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/06/business/briefs-030360.html?searchResultPosition=2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600 Membrane keyboards are vying for dominance https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/05/business/technology-the-membrane-keyboard.html?searchResultPosition=32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane_keyboard Surge expected at the patent office https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/14/business/patents-reagan-budget-asks-rise-in-patent-office-funds.html?searchResultPosition=18 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Patent_and_Trademark_Office Automated Simulations launches Epyx line https://archive.org/details/softalkv1n07mar1981/page/36/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/company/epyx-inc https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/video-game-newsroom-time-machine-0 https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/michael-katz-interview-part-1 Recommended Links: The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play and Enzo Maida.    

PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) was an educational computer system that began at the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana in 1960 and ran into the 2010s in various flavors.  Wait, that's an oversimplification. PLATO seemed to develop on an island in the corn fields of Champaign Illinois, and sometimes precedes, sometimes symbolizes, and sometimes fast-follows what was happening in computing around the world in those decades. To put this in perspective - PLATO began on ILLIAC in 1960 - a large classic vacuum tube mainframe. Short for the Illinois Automatic Computer, ILLIAC was built in 1952, around 7 years after ENIAC was first put into production. As with many early mainframe projects PLATO 1 began in response to a military need. We were looking for new ways to educate the masses of veterans using the GI Bill. We had to stretch the reach of college campuses beyond their existing infrastructures. Computerized testing started with mechanical computing, got digitized with the introduction of Scantron by IBM in 1935, and a number of researchers were looking to improve the consistency of education and bring in new technology to help with quality teaching at scale. The post-World War II boom did this for industry as well. Problem is, following the launch of Sputnik by the USSR in 1957, many felt the US began lagging behind in education. So grant money to explore solutions flowed and CERL was able to capitalize on grants from the US Army, Navy, and Air Force. By 1959, physicists at Illinois began thinking of using that big ILLIAC machine they had access to. Daniel Alpert recruited Don Bitzer to run a project, after false starts with educators around the campus. Bitzer shipped the first instance of PLATO 1 in 1960. They used a television to show images, stored images in Raytheon tubes, and a make-shift keyboard designed for PLATO so users could provide input in interactive menus and navigate. They experimented with slide projectors when they realized the tubes weren't all that reliable and figured out how to do rudimentary time sharing, expanding to a second concurrent terminal with the release of PLATO II in 1961. Bitzer was a classic Midwestern tinkerer. He solicited help from local clubs, faculty, high school students, and wherever he could cut a corner to build more cool stuff, he was happy to move money and resources to other important parts of the system. This was the age of hackers and they hacked away. He inspired but also allowed people to follow their own passions. Innovation must be decentralized to succeed. They created an organization to support PLATO in 1966 - as part of the Graduate College. CERL stands for the Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory (CERL). Based on early successes, they got more and more funding at CERL. Now that we were beyond a 1:1 ratio of users to computers and officially into Time Sharing - it was time for Plato III. There were a number of enhancements in PLATO III. For starters, the system was moved to a CDC 1604 that CEO of Control Data William Norris donated to the cause - and expanded to allow for 20 terminals. But it was complicated to create new content and the team realized that content would be what drove adoption. This was true with applications during the personal computer revolution and then apps in the era of the App Store as well. One of many lessons learned first on PLATO.  Content was in the form of applications that they referred to as lessons. It was a teaching environment, after all. They emulated the ILLIAC for existing content but needed more. People were compiling applications in a complicated language. Professors had day jobs and needed a simpler way to build content. So Paul Tenczar on the team came up with a language specifically tailored to creating lessons. Similar in some ways to BASIC, it was called TUTOR.  Tenczar released the manual for TUTOR in 1969 and with an easier way of getting content out, there was an explosion in new lessons, and new features and ideas would flourish. We would see simulations, games, and courseware that would lead to a revolution in ideas. In a revolutionary time. The number of hours logged by students and course authors steadily increased. The team became ever more ambitious. And they met that ambition with lots of impressive achievements. Now that they were comfortable with the CDC 1604 they new that the new content needed more firepower. CERL negotiated a contract with Control Data Corporation (CDC) in 1970 to provide equipment and financial support for PLATO. Here they ended up with a CDC Cyber 6400 mainframe, which became the foundation of the next iteration of PLATO, PLATO IV. PLATO IV  was a huge leap forward on many levels. They had TUTOR but with more resources could produce even more interactive content and capabilities. The terminals were expensive and not so scalable. So in preparation for potentially thousands of terminals in PLATO IV they decided to develop their own.  This might seem a bit space age for the early 1970s, but what they developed was a touch flat panel plasma display. It was 512x512 and rendered 60 lines per second at 1260 baud. The plasma had memory in it, which was made possible by the fact that they weren't converting digital signals to analog, as is done on CRTs. Instead, it was a fully digital experience. The flat panel used infrared to see where a user was touching, allowing users some of their first exposure to touch screens. This was a grid of 16 by 16 rather than 512 but that was more than enough to take them over the next decade. The system could render basic bitmaps but some lessons needed more rich, what we might call today, multimedia. The Raytheon tubes used in previous systems proved to be more of a CRT technology but also had plenty of drawbacks. So for newer machines they also included a microfiche machine that produced images onto the back of the screen.  The terminals were a leap forward. There were other programs going on at about the same time during the innovative bursts of PLATO, like the Dartmouth Time Sharing System, or DTSS, project that gave us BASIC instead of TUTOR. Some of these systems also had rudimentary forms of forums, such as EIES and the emerging BBS Usenet culture that began in 1973. But PLATO represented a unique look into the splintered networks of the Time Sharing age. Combined with the innovative lessons and newfound collaborative capabilities the PLATO team was about to bring about something special. Or lots of somethings that culminated in more. One of those was Notes. Talkomatic was created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1973. Tenczar asked the 17-year old Woolley to write a tool that would allow users to report bugs with the system. There was a notes file that people could just delete. So they added the ability for a user to automatically get tagged in another file when updating and store notes. He expanded it to allow for 63 responses per note and when opened, it showed the most recent notes. People came up with other features and so a menu was driven, providing access to System Announcements, Help Notes, and General Notes.  But the notes were just the start. In 1973, seeing the need for even more ways to communicate with other people using the system, Doug Brown wrote a prototype for Talkomatic. Talkomatic was a chat program that showed when people were typing. Woolley helped Brown and they added channels with up to five people per channel. Others could watch the chat as well. It would be expanded and officially supported as a tool called Term-Talk. That was entered by using the TERM key on a console, which allowed for a conversation between two people. You could TERM, or chat a person, and then they could respond or mark themselves as busy.  Because the people writing this stuff were also the ones supporting users, they added another feature, the ability to monitor another user, or view their screen. And so programmers, or consultants, could respond to help requests and help get even more lessons going. And some at PLATO were using ARPANET, so it was only a matter of time before word of Ray Tomlinson's work on electronic mail leaked over, leading to the 1974 addition of personal notes, a way to send private mail engineered by Kim Mast. As PLATO grew, the amount of content exploded. They added categories to Notes in 1975 which led to Group Notes in 1976, and comments and linked notes and the ability to control access. But one of the most important innovations PLATO will be remembered for is games. Anyone that has played an educational game will note that school lessons and games aren't always all that different. Since Rick Blomme had ported Spacewar! to PLATO in 1969 and added a two-player option, multi-player games had been on the rise. They made leader boards for games like Dogfight so players could get early forms of game rankings. Games like airtight and airace and Galactic Attack would follow those. MUDs were another form of games that came to PLATO. Collosal Cave Adventure had come in 1975 for the PDP, so again these things were happening in a vacuum but where there were influences and where innovations were deterministic and found in isolation is hard to say. But the crawlers exploded on PLATO. We got Moria, Oubliette by Jim Schwaiger, Pedit5, crypt, dungeon, avatar, and drygulch. We saw the rise of intense storytelling, different game mechanics that were mostly inspired by Dungeons and Dragons, As PLATO terminals found their way in high schools and other universities, the amount of games and amount of time spent on those games exploded, with estimates of 20% of time on PLATO being spent playing games.  PLATO IV would grow to support thousands of terminals around the world in the 1970s. It was a utility. Schools (and even some parents) leased lines back to Champagne Urbana and many in computing thought that these timesharing systems would become the basis for a utility model in computing, similar to the cloud model we have today. But we had to go into the era of the microcomputer to boomerang back to timesharing first.  That microcomputer revolution would catch many, who didn't see the correlation between Moore's Law and the growing number of factories and standardization that would lead to microcomputers, off guard. Control Data had bet big on the mainframe market - and PLATO. CDC would sell mainframes to other schools to host their own PLATO instance. This is where it went from a timesharing system to a network of computers that did timesharing. Like a star topology.  Control Data looked to PLATO as one form of what the future of the company would be. Here, he saw this mainframe with thousands of connections as a way to lease time on the computers. CDC took PLATO to market as CDC Plato. Here, schools and companies alike could benefit from distance education. And for awhile it seemed to be working. Financial companies and airlines bought systems and the commercialization was on the rise, with over a hundred PLATO systems in use as we made our way to the middle of the 1980s. Even government agencies like the Depart of Defense used them for training. But this just happened to coincide with the advent of the microcomputer. CDC made their own terminals that were often built with the same components that would be found in microcomputers but failed to capitalize on that market. Corporations didn't embrace the collaboration features and often had these turned off. Social computing would move to bulletin boards And CDC would release versions of PLATO as micro-PLATO for the TRS-80, Texas Instruments TI-99, and even Atari computers. But the bureaucracy at CDC had slowed things down to the point that they couldn't capitalize on the rapidly evolving PC industry. And prices were too high in a time when home computers were just moving from a hobbyist market to the mainstream.  The University of Illinois spun PLATO out into its own organization called University Communications, Inc (or UCI for short) and closed CERL in 1994. That was the same year Marc Andreessen co-founded Mosaic Communications Corporation, makers of Netscape -successor to NCSA Mosaic. Because NCSA, or The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, had also benefited from National Science Foundation grants when it was started in 1982. And all those students who flocked to the University of Illinois because of programs like PLATO had brought with them more expertise. UCI continued PLATO as NovaNet, which was acquired by National Computer Systems and then Pearson corporation, finally getting shut down in 2015 - 55 years after those original days on ILLIAC. It evolved from the vacuum tube-driven mainframe in a research institute with one terminal to two terminals, to a transistorized mainframe with hundreds and then over a thousand terminals connected from research and educational institutions around the world. It represented new ideas in programming and programming languages and inspired generations of innovations.  That aftermath includes: The ideas. PLATO developers met with people from Xerox PARC starting in the 70s and inspired some of the work done at Xerox. Yes, they seemed isolated at times but they were far from it. They also cross-pollinated ideas to Control Data. One way they did this was by trading some commercialization rights for more mainframe hardware.  One of the easiest connections to draw from PLATO to the modern era is how the notes files evolved. Ray Ozzie graduated from Illinois in 1979 and went to work for Data General and then Software Arts, makers of VisiCalc. The corporate world had nothing like the culture that had evolved out of the notes files in PLATO Notes. Today we take collaboration tools for granted but when Ozzie was recruited by Lotus, the makers of 1-2-3, he joined only if they agreed to him funding a project to take that collaborative spirit that still seemed stuck in the splintered PLATO network. The Internet and networked computing in companies was growing, and he knew he could improve on the notes files in a way that companies could take use of it. He started Iris Associates in 1984 and shipped a tool in 1989. That would evolve into what is would be called Lotus Notes when the company was acquired by Lotus in 1994 and then when Lotus was acquired by IBM, would evolve into Domino - surviving to today as HCL Domino. Ozzie would go on to become a CTO and then the Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, helping spearhead the Microsoft Azure project. Collaboration. Those notes files were also some of the earliest newsgroups. But they went further. Talkomatic introduced real time text chats. The very concept of a digital community and its norms and boundaries were being tested and challenges we still face like discrimination even manifesting themselves then. But it was inspiring and between stints at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie founded Talko in 2012 based on what he learned in the 70s, working with Talkomatic. That company was acquired by Microsoft and some of the features ported into Skype.  Another way Microsoft benefited from the work done on PLATO was with Microsoft Flight Simulator. That was originally written by Bruce Artwick after leaving the university based on the flight games he'd played on PLATO.  Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol was cloned from Avatar Silas Warner was connected to PLATO from terminals at the University of Indiana. During and after school, he wrote software for companies but wrote Robot War for PLATO and then co-founded Muse Software where he wrote Escape!, a precursor for lots of other maze runners, and then Castle Wolfenstein. The name would get bought for $5,000 after his company went bankrupt and one of the early block-buster first-person shooters when released as Wolfenstein 3D. Then John Carmack and John Romero created Doom. But Warner would go on to work with some of the best in gaming, including Sid Meier.   Paul Alfille built the game Freecell for PLATO and Control Data released it for all PLATO systems. Jim Horne played it from the PLATO terminals at the University of Alberta and eventually released it for DOS in 1988. Horn went to work for Microsoft who included it in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack, making it one of the most popular software titles played on early versions of Windows. He got 10 shares of Microsoft stock in return and it's still part of Windows 10 using the Microsoft Solitaire Collection.. Robert wood head and Andrew Greenberg got onto PLATO from their terminals at Cornell University where they were able to play games like Oubliette and Emprie. They would write a game called Wizardry that took some of the best that the dungeon crawl multi-players had to offer and bring them into a single player computer then console game. I spent countless hours playing Wizardry on the Nintendo NES and have played many of the spin-offs, which came as late as 2014. Not only did the game inspire generations of developers to write dungeon games, but some of the mechanics inspired features in the Ultima series, Dragon Quest, Might and Magic, The Bard's Tale, Dragon Warrior and countless Manga. Greenberg would go on to help with Q-Bert and other games before going on to work with the IEEE. Woodhead would go on to work on other games like Star Maze. I met Woodhead shortly after he wrote Virex, an early anti-virus program for the Mac that would later become McAfee VirusScan for the Mac. Paul Tenczar was in charge of the software developers for PLATO. After that he founded Computer Teaching Corporation and introduced EnCORE, which was changed to Tencore. They grew to 56 employees by 1990 and ran until 2000. He returned to the University of Illinois to put RFID tags on bees, contributing to computing for nearly 5 decades and counting.  Michael Allen used PLATO at Ohio State University before looking to create a new language. He was hired at CDC where he became a director in charge of Research and Development for education systems There, he developed the ideas for a new computer language authoring system, which became Authorware, one of the most popular authoring packages for the Mac. That would merge with Macro-Mind to become Macromedia, where bits and pieces got put into Dreamweaver and Shockwave as they released those. After Adobe acquired Macromedia, he would write a number of books and create even more e-learning software authoring tools.    So PLATO gave us multi-player games, new programming languages, instant messaging, online and multiple choice testing, collaboration forums, message boards, multiple person chat rooms, early rudimentary remote screen sharing, their own brand of plasma display and all the research behind printing circuits on glass for that, and early research into touch sensitive displays. And as we've shown in just a few of the many people that contributed to computing after, they helped inspire an early generation of programmers and innovators.  If you like this episode I strongly suggest checking out The Friendly Orange Glow from Brian Dear. It's a lovely work with just the right mix of dry history and flourishes of prose. A short history like this can't hold a candle to a detailed anthology like Dear's book.  Another well researched telling of the story can be found in a couple of chapters of A People's History Of Computing In The United States, from Joy Rankin. She does a great job drawing a parallel (and sometimes direct line from) the Dartmouth Time Sharing System and others as early networks. And yes, terminals dialing into a mainframe and using resources over telephone and leased lines was certainly a form of bridging infrastructures and seemed like a network at the time. But no mainframe could have scaled to the ability to become a utility in the sense that all of humanity could access what was hosted on it.  Instead, the ARPANET was put online and growing from 1969 to 1990 and working out the hard scientific and engineering principals behind networking protocols gave us TCP/IP. In her book, Rankin makes great points about the BASIC and TUTOR applications helping shape more of our modern world in how they inspired the future of how we used personal devices once connected to a network. The scientists behind ARPANET, then NSFnet and the Internet, did the work to connect us. You see, those dial-up connections were expensive over long distances. By 1974 there were 47 computers connected to the ARPANET and by 1983 we had TCP/IPv4.And much like Bitzer allowing games, they didn't seem to care too much how people would use the technology but wanted to build the foundation - a playground for whatever people wanted to build on top of it. So the administrative and programming team at CERL deserve a lot of credit. The people who wrote the system, the generations who built features and code only to see it become obsolete came and went - but the compounding impact of their contributions can be felt across the technology landscape today. Some of that is people rediscovering work done at CERL, some is directly inspired, and some has been lost only to probably be rediscovered in the future.  One thing is for certain, their contributions to e-learning are unparalleled with any other system out there. And their technical contributions, both in the form of those patented and those that were either unpatentable or where they didn't think of patenting, are immense.  Bitzer and the first high schoolers and then graduate students across the world helped to shape the digital world we live in today. More from an almost sociological aspect than technical. And the deep thought applied to the system lives on today in so many aspects of our modern world. Sometimes that's a straight line and others it's dotted or curved. Looking around, most universities have licensing offices now, to capitalize on the research done. Check out a university near you and see what they have available for license. You might be surprised. As I'm sure many in Champagne were after all those years. Just because CDC couldn't capitalize on some great research doesn't mean we can't. 

Nintendo opens its first offices in New York Commodore introduces the VIC 20 and Adventure gets reviewed These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in January of 1981. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com Links: Corrections: https://books.google.de/books?id=sy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=gene+lipkin&source=bl&ots=R4C2CM7gzm&sig=ACfU3U2ETkAXNpGOsq2ypyp8gFO8lM6nGA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVqceun7btAhWGCuwKHQ53AwMQ6AEwD3oECBIQAg#v=onepage&q=gene%20lipkin&f=false 1981: Nintendo of America opens its first offices Vending Times, January 1981, pg. 40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Bowser Atari debuts Warlords and Red Baron https://www.mobygames.com/game/warlords_ https://www.mobygames.com/game/red-baron____ https://archive.org/details/Atari_Coin_Connection_Volume_5_Number_1_January_1981 https://www.patreon.com/posts/36710924 Commodore introduces the Vic20 https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198101/page/n25/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A Chris Crawford explains sprites on the Atari 8 bits https://archive.org/details/1981-01-compute-magazine/page/n67/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/star-raiders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford_(game_designer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_VDM8nC9sM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN49G3RwSQs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Developers_Conference Akalabeth reviewed https://archive.org/details/softalkv1n05jan1981/page/17/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akalabeth:_World_of_Doom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTG3KRGJAjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yINb5Huh0C4 Adventure reviewed Video January 1981, pg. 28 https://www.mobygames.com/game/adventure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(1980_video_game) http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-100-most-influential-games-part-1/ Record sales slipping Forbes, January 5, 1981, pg. 227 Recommended Links: The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play and Enzo Maida.

In this episode, Phil and Dave look at the entire timeline of video game consoles in the United States and their experiences using each of them. Console Release Timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console Console Prices (inflation adjusted): https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/92djek/console_prices_adjusted_for_inflation/ https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/04/comparing-the-price-of-every-game-console-with-inflation 1983 Video Game Crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 Consoles and Emulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec_(video_game) https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/7/16934180/super-nt-review-super-nintendo-snes-analogue https://www.tomsguide.com/us/snes-classic-vs-super-nt,review-5145.html https://www.analogue.co/

Electronic games may be about to crash! Amstrad enters the console wars Pokemon single handedly saves video games These stories and many more on this month's episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine This month we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in September of 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events.. Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=7594060 Links: 1970: IBM launches their first macine exclusively using semiconductor RAM https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/24/archives/a-new-computer-unveiled-by-ibm-main-memory-system-uses.html?searchResultPosition=9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370_Model_145 World's first Chess competition between computers takes place in New York https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/02/archives/chess-computer-loses-game-in-a-kingsize-blunder.html?searchResultPosition=17 https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~newborn/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Newborn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution 1980: Mattel announces test market for Intellivision keyboard Plaything, Sept 1980 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision#Keyboard_Component Mattel warns shareholders that competitors may start dumping game inventory Plaything, Sept 1980, pg. 11 Pizza Time Theatre loses first round to Topeka Inn Management Play Meter, September 1, 1980, pg. 5 https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/may-2020 Stratavox brings speech to the video games! Play Meter, September 15, 1980, pg. 39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C-1J5XvhB0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovox Williams is entering the video game biz Play Meter, September 15, 1980, pg. 40 Computer magazines report from Summer CES https://archive.org/details/1980-09-compute-magazine/page/n14/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198009/page/n17/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Scientific https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_series_80#85 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20 https://archive.org/details/Kilobaud198009/page/n25/mode/2up Japan takes on the US for 64k supremacy https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/16/archives/the-fight-over-computer-chips-us-japanese-competing-on-new-advance.html?searchResultPosition=11 Softalk launches https://archive.org/details/softalkv1n01sep1980/mode/1up Dan Bunten's first major release tested https://archive.org/details/softalkv1n01sep1980/page/13/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,8515/ https://www.mobygames.com/game/apple2/computer-quarterback/credits https://youtu.be/xsGfXR0m8Lg The other trinity https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198009/page/n39/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Astrocade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interact_Home_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoBrain_Family_Computer 1990: Computer games are coming to TV https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_74/page/n10/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_Mansion_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_on_Earth_Is_Carmen_Sandiego%3F Cinemaware slugs it out with Beyond over TV Sports Baseball https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_74/page/n10/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/tony-la-russas-ultimate-baseball TMNT is getting a second Amiga port https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue36Sep90/page/n7/mode/1up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFQkdLd4M_g Mediagenic becomes first US SNES dev https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_74/page/n10/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/snes/activision-publishing-inc/ Megadrive finally coming to the UK https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_106_1990-09_EMAP_Publishing_GB/page/n12/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis First rumors of a Sega CD add-on for the Genesis surface https://archive.org/stream/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20014%20%28September%201990%29#page/n21/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_CD Amstrad launches the GX4000 https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_106_1990-09_EMAP_Publishing_GB/page/n7/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/micromania-segunda-epocha-28/page/n7/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_GX4000 Atari to redesign the Lynx https://archive.org/stream/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20014%20%28September%201990%29#page/n21/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Lynx Coin Op sales are slumping Replay, Sept. 1990, pg. 38 Atari repurchases stock back from Namco Playthings, Sept. 1990 pg. 13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco#Atari_Games,_rifts_with_Nintendo_and_other_ventures_(1985%E2%80%931989) 2000: Controversy over violent games continues https://www.retromags.com/files/file/4317-gamepro-issue-144-september-2000/ pg. 30 SNK closes down its US operations https://archive.org/stream/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20134%20%28September%202000%29#page/n25/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNK#Bankruptcy_and_Playmore_Corporation_(2001%E2%80%932003) 100th million Gameboy shipped https://www.retromags.com/files/file/4317-gamepro-issue-144-september-2000/ pg. 28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy Pokemon singlehandedly lifts video game sales https://archive.org/details/NextGen69Sep2000/page/n18/mode/1up Piracy hits the Dreamcast https://archive.org/stream/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20134%20%28September%202000%29#page/n37/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GD-ROM Micromania magazine deals with the rise of "abandonware" https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue68/page/n53/mode/1up Windows ME is coming to make everything better... https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_Issue_093_2000-09_Dennis_Publishing_GB/page/n19/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me Rebellion buys 2000AD https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_Issue_093_2000-09_Dennis_Publishing_GB/page/n29/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_Developments Eidos is up for sale https://archive.org/details/NextGen69Sep2000/page/n9/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Enix_Europe Probe software is no more https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-2000-09/page/n12/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acclaim_Entertainment_subsidiaries#Acclaim_Studios_London Recommended Links: Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan of History of How We Play.

Although it’s taken him four seasons to make an appearance, we are so glad to finally welcome Chris McCord, creator of the Phoenix framework, onto the show. While this season’s focus is on system and application architecture, today’s discussion deviates to focus on Phoenix. We get started by hearing more about Chris’s programming journey, all the way from TI-Basic to where he is now. After this, we dive into LiveView, the project Chris is currently focusing most of his energy on. We get into some of the incredible changes that have been made including live navigation, deep change tracking optimizations, and static asset tracking. Chris shares which of the changes he is most excited about, along with why he enjoys seeing LiveView being misused. We then look at some of the critiques of LiveView and Phoenix generally. Chris offers counter-arguments to the most common criticisms of the framework. He shares how the title of 'framework' can be a double-edged sword, as well as why he is hesitant to extract channels prematurely. We wrap the show up with a look into the future, hearing more about what’s on the horizon for Phoenix and where Chris hopes the Elixir community is headed. This conversation was well worth the four season-long wait, so be sure to tune in today! Key Points From This Episode: Why it took Chris four whole seasons to finally make an appearance on the show. Chris’s programming journey from T-Basic all the way to Java, HTML, and PHP. How a broken back landed Chris his first paid programming job. Learn more about Chris’s current project, LiveView, and some of the recent additions. Why the optimizations were the most interesting changes for Chris to make on LiveView. Some of the most interesting use cases Chris has seen of LiveView. How Chris plans to navigate laying LiveView out on a larger codebase. Chris’s take on stateful applications and why the platform is so important. The origins of the hilariously termed ‘dead view.’ Some of the most pertinent critiques of LiveView and Phoenix generally. Chris busts some of the invalid critiques of Phoenix. Why the community feedback on LiveWire has been so surprising to Chris. Phoenix 1.6 changes and when we can expect its release. Chris’s take on whether Elixir is likely to overthrow Rails in terms of popularity. The systemic blockers that create adoption friction of Elixir and Phoenix. Looking into the future — Chris’s goals for Phoenix and his hopes for the Elixir community. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Chris McCord — http://chrismccord.com/ Chris McCord on Twitter — https://twitter.com/chrismccord DockYard — https://dockyard.com/ Dave’s Site — https://www.davesite.com/ Hacking with PHP — http://www.hackingwithphp.com/ Phoenix LiveView — https://hexdocs.pm/phoenixliveview/Phoenix.LiveView.html Phoenix Phrenzy — https://groundstation.gigalixirapp.com/ Dashbit: An Upcoming Authentication Solution for Phoenix — https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-phoenix Aaron Renner on GitHub — https://github.com/aaronrenner/phxgenauth Phoenix Issues on GitHub — https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issuesq=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3Av2.0 Phoenix Fire Nest — https://github.com/phoenixframework/firenest Phoenix Pub/Sub — https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenixpubsub ElixirConf 2020— https://2020.elixirconf.com/ ElixirConf 2020 Speaker Proposals — https://2020.elixirconf.com/#cfp TI-83 Calculator — https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-TI-83-Graphing-Calculator/dp/B00001N2QU Teach Yourself C in 21 Days — https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-21-Days-Sams/dp/0672310694 Rest Fest — https://www.restfest.org/ José Valim on Twitter — https://twitter.com/josevalim Jason Goldberger on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-goldberger-84237392/ SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ SmartLogic Jobs — https://smartlogic.workable.com/ Special Guest: Chris McCord.

Matt is Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of WellAware Holdings, Inc. based in San Antonio, Texas.  He has more than 20 years of experience delivering results in high-growth technology companies. At WellAware, Matt drives the overall business and product strategy while also leading the day-to-day execution of the company’s vision of connecting people to the things that matter. Matt is also a partner with Eldon Pass, a trusted partner that helps connect entrepreneurs and investors to build great companies for a greater purpose.  He is also a partner in InCube Ventures, a leading medical device venture capital firm, with offices in California and Texas. Prior to joining InCube, Matt was the General Manager of Texas Instruments Medical Business Unit, where he was responsible for overall direction, growth, strategy, promotion, and execution of the business. Matt began his career with Texas Instruments (TI) and held many roles and management positions. He led the creation of two internal business units for TI that contribute more than $50M in revenue, one focused in optical networking and the other in digital power. Matt currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Pine Cove Christian Camps, which serves more than 2,000 college counselors and 45,000 campers every year. Matt holds a BS of Science degree from Texas A&M University. He and his wife and best friend, Julie, live, work, and play in Boerne, Texas and stay busy with their two daughters, Lana and Haley.

Howdy folks!  The ARG Gang is back with a TEXAS sized episode!  This week we look at the Texas Instruments TI 99/4a computer!  Gaze in amazement as Amigo Aaron and Cowpoke Brent rustle up fun with Parsec and Tombstone City:  21st Century! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/arg-presents/support

Today SOCs are in desperate need of a different alerting approach. Texas Instruments (TI) decided to transform its SOC by using risk-based alerting to generate fewer, higher fidelity alerts, and by aligning to the MITRE ATT&CK™ framework, which provides more situational awareness to analysts. This risk-based approach reduces false positives and the situational numbness associated with the legacy whitelisting process. Splunk and TI will walk you through TI's SOC successes as it transitioned to risk-based alerting. TI will detail a few real-life risk-based rule examples, discuss learning curves to fast track your transition, and discuss how MITRE ATT&CK™ fits in with this approach. After this session, you will have the foundation to embark on your risk-based alerting journey, allowing you to increase detection mechanisms, increase your coverage of the ATT&CK™ techniques, and improve the overall effectiveness of your SOC. Speaker(s) Jim Apger, Staff Security Architect, Splunk Jimi Mills, Security Operations Center Manager, Texas Instruments Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/SEC1803.pdf?podcast=1577146234 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security Track: Security, Compliance and Fraud Level: Intermediate

Today SOCs are in desperate need of a different alerting approach. Texas Instruments (TI) decided to transform its SOC by using risk-based alerting to generate fewer, higher fidelity alerts, and by aligning to the MITRE ATT&CK™ framework, which provides more situational awareness to analysts. This risk-based approach reduces false positives and the situational numbness associated with the legacy whitelisting process. Splunk and TI will walk you through TI's SOC successes as it transitioned to risk-based alerting. TI will detail a few real-life risk-based rule examples, discuss learning curves to fast track your transition, and discuss how MITRE ATT&CK™ fits in with this approach. After this session, you will have the foundation to embark on your risk-based alerting journey, allowing you to increase detection mechanisms, increase your coverage of the ATT&CK™ techniques, and improve the overall effectiveness of your SOC. Speaker(s) Jim Apger, Staff Security Architect, Splunk Jimi Mills, Security Operations Center Manager, Texas Instruments Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/SEC1803.pdf?podcast=1577146225 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security Track: Security, Compliance and Fraud Level: Intermediate

Today SOCs are in desperate need of a different alerting approach. Texas Instruments (TI) decided to transform its SOC by using risk-based alerting to generate fewer, higher fidelity alerts, and by aligning to the MITRE ATT&CK™ framework, which provides more situational awareness to analysts. This risk-based approach reduces false positives and the situational numbness associated with the legacy whitelisting process. Splunk and TI will walk you through TI's SOC successes as it transitioned to risk-based alerting. TI will detail a few real-life risk-based rule examples, discuss learning curves to fast track your transition, and discuss how MITRE ATT&CK™ fits in with this approach. After this session, you will have the foundation to embark on your risk-based alerting journey, allowing you to increase detection mechanisms, increase your coverage of the ATT&CK™ techniques, and improve the overall effectiveness of your SOC. Speaker(s) Jim Apger, Staff Security Architect, Splunk Jimi Mills, Security Operations Center Manager, Texas Instruments Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/SEC1803.pdf?podcast=1577146229 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security Track: Security, Compliance and Fraud Level: Intermediate

Today SOCs are in desperate need of a different alerting approach. Texas Instruments (TI) decided to transform its SOC by using risk-based alerting to generate fewer, higher fidelity alerts, and by aligning to the MITRE ATT&CK™ framework, which provides more situational awareness to analysts. This risk-based approach reduces false positives and the situational numbness associated with the legacy whitelisting process. Splunk and TI will walk you through TI's SOC successes as it transitioned to risk-based alerting. TI will detail a few real-life risk-based rule examples, discuss learning curves to fast track your transition, and discuss how MITRE ATT&CK™ fits in with this approach. After this session, you will have the foundation to embark on your risk-based alerting journey, allowing you to increase detection mechanisms, increase your coverage of the ATT&CK™ techniques, and improve the overall effectiveness of your SOC. Speaker(s) Jim Apger, Staff Security Architect, Splunk Jimi Mills, Security Operations Center Manager, Texas Instruments Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/SEC1803.pdf?podcast=1577146216 Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security Track: Security, Compliance and Fraud Level: Intermediate

Software engineer and “I’ll show it to you at hackday… chap”, Guy Cirino joins Lyle for a chat about hacking at Netflix, driving across Asia, high energy particle physics at CERN, and improving streaming video better for everyone.Netflix Stream Possible VideoNetflix Hack Day — Winter 2015 – Netflix TechBlog – MediumGeekSpeak About AR Tech: Martian Telescope Senses Wrecked TeslasGeekSpeak Episode: Engineering FlatBuffers Programing sans JSONTeleFlix - Full Blog PostThe real Hawkins National Labs from Stranger Things - BNL, the g-2 experimentScintillator - WikipediaCMS | CERNSuperconducting Super Collider - WikipediaMongol Rally - WikipediaThe Magic Modem: A Global Network Emulator – @ScaleBlog of Some Guy14quick.org - Final Fantasy 14 Done Quick for CharityWhat Is Extra Life? | Extra LifeFINAL FANTASY XIVExtra Life 2018 Live from Netflix HQ! - YouTubeGeekSpeak Episode: Ready Player OneFree Code Camp with Quincy LarsonRaspberry Pi Zero W - Raspberry PiTexas Instruments TI-99/4A - WikipediaNES Processor -> CPU - Nesdev wikiApplesoft BASIC Programming Reference Manual - Apple Computer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Floppy Days Episode 88 - The Apple III - Part 2 Hi, all, and welcome to Floppy Days #88 for December, 2018.  I’m your host, Randy Kindig, and it’s hard to believe that 2018 is coming to an end.  I hope you all had a great year! As stated in the last show, we are into the year 1981 for computer introductions and we are covering the Apple II’s more powerful sibling, the Apple III.  This is part 2 of the 2-part series and will again have Paul Hagstrom, prolific podcaster himself, to help me cover this machine. We will continue where we left off the last show, and will cover magazines, books, software, emulators, Web sites and a whole lot more.  Stay tuned to learn more than you ever wanted to know about the Apple III. New Acquisitions/What I’ve Been Up To Tandy Assembly 2018 - http://www.tandyassembly.com/index.html Bartlett Labs (Peter Barlett) - MISE/M3SE/MIRE - http://bartlettlabs.com/ Ian Mavric - The Right Stuff - http://members.iinet.net.au/~ianmav/trs80/ Peter Cetinski - http://pski.net/category/retro/ Brendan Donahe - CoCoVGA - http://www.cocovga.com/ Jim Brain - Retro Innovations - http://store.go4retro.com/ Thomas McLaren - Digital Dinos - http://www.digitaldinos.com/ ZZap!64 Annual 2019 book - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/47744432/zzap-64-annual-2019-the-next-chapter TI-59 & gummy wheel repair kit - https://www.ebay.com/itm/TEXAS-INSTRUMENTS-TI-59-CALCULATOR-CARD-READER-GUMMY-WHEEL-REPAIR-KIT/264101043234 Soldering Station - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D57JT3F Atari 8-bit SIO cables - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=128 Atari 8-bit SIO2SD p https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=58 Atari 8-bit S-Drive Max - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EUVJYME Atari 410 Cassette Drive belt - https://www.ebay.com/itm/123508444012?ViewItem=&item=123508444012 Pi1541 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/PiDRIVE-Raspberry-Pi-HAT-1541-1581-Commodore-64-128-Vic-20-Emulator-OLED-Pi1541-/332860073409 Amiga External Drive Cable and Boot Selector - http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?88687-Gotek-Floppy-Drive-External-ROUND-cables Upcoming Shows The Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network will have three tables at the second annual Retro City Festival, taking place January 5-6, 2019 at the famous Fairplex, Expo Hall 9, 1101 W McKinley Ave. in Pomona, California (east of Los Angeles). - http://retrocityfestival.com - a yearly celebration of video game history VCF Pacific Northwest 2019 will take place March 23-24, 2019 at Living Computers: Museum+Labs in Seattle, Washington.  Details can be found at http://www.vcfed.org/vcf-pnw. Feedback “Sophistication and Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer” by Steven Weyhrich - https://www.amazon.com/Sophistication-Simplicity-Times-Apple-Computer/dp/0986832278 Jupiter Ace resources - https://jupiter-ace.co.uk Popular Magazines/Newsletters Apple III Dimensions (Apple) - https://www.apple2scans.net/magazines/apple-dimensions/ - 4 issues (tied to the recall/upgrade program) OnThree - https://www.apple2scans.net/magazines/on-three/ - ‘83 to ‘90 - Bob Consorti put in link to interview on Drop III Inches Open Apple Gazette - https://www.apple2scans.net/magazines/open-apple-gazette/ - ‘82 to ‘84 Apple Orchard - http://yesterbits.com/scans/apple-orchard-magazine/ - ‘80 to ‘84 Call-A.P.P.L.E. - https://www.callapple.org - ‘78 to (‘90, ‘02 to ‘11, ‘15 to) present Softalk - https://archive.org/details/softalkapple - ‘80 to ‘84 Washington Apple Pi Journal - https://www.wap.org/journal/showcase/ -‘79 to ‘94 Books Osborne-McGraw Hill Guide to your Apple III - Stanley M. Miastkowski - http://www.apple2scans.net/apple-iii-documents/osborne-mcgraw-hill-guide-to-your-apple-iii/ Exploring Business BASIC - an almost-book by Taylor Pohlman: http://www.apple2scans.net/apple-iii-documents/exploring-business-basic/ "Using Apple Business Computers" by Kenniston Lord Jr - https://www.ebay.com/itm/1984-Operating-Programming-Apple-III-Computers-rare-book-on-the-Apple-III-/252985598982 Business BASIC for the Apple III by Eddie Adamis - https://www.amazon.com/Business-BASIC-Apple-Eddie-Adamis/dp/0471883883 — http://www.apple2scans.net/apple-iii-documents/business-basic-for-the-apple-iii/ BASIC Keywords for the Apple III also by Eddie Adamis - http://www.apple2scans.net/apple-iii-documents/basic-keywords-for-the-apple-iii/ [nearly identical to other Adamis book, just sorted differently] Software Resource Guide for Apple III and Apple III Plus Harware and Software (Apple): http://www.apple2scans.net/apple-iii-documents/resource-guide-for-apple-and-apple-plus-hardware-and-software/ Software - http://apple3.org/iiisoftware.html Ads & Appearances Night Shift (1982) - Chuck, the morgue night attendant, uses Visicalc on an Apple III to keep his girls' finances in order. Dick Cavett TV ads - Apple IIII easy to use -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOk-gA_j_Cw Dick Cavett TV Ad - Electronic Worksheet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk80YJ0H-ZU - Modern Upgrades CFFA2 / CFFA3000 - http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php , http://dreher.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=490 Floppy Emu - https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ SD Floppy II - http://www.a2heaven.com/webshop/index.php?rt=product/product&product_id=124 X/ProFile - Profile/Widget Emulator Board for Apple Lisa&Apple3 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/X-ProFile-Profile-Widget-Emulator-Board-Apple-Lisa-Apple3-Hundreds-SOLD-/202428018286 - $369.99 APPLE III PROFILE INTERFACE - (this is a vintage era card) - http://vintagemicros.com/catalog/apple-profile-interface-p-170.html Emulators Sara - http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/sara.html MESS/MAME - https://www.mamedev.org/release.html See also: apple3rtr https://github.com/datajerk/apple3rtr “Ready to Run” Open Emulator - https://github.com/OpenEmulatorProject/OpenEmulator-OSX , Unofficial snapshot builds: https://archive.org/details/OpenEmulatorSnapshots Buying One Today Interview with Bob Cook, Founder and former President of Sun Remarketing - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-classic/classiccomputingcom-bob-cook-fmin7S5wdps/ Community Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/appleiii/ Twitter Drop III inches (podcast twitter feed): https://twitter.com/drop_iii_inches Forums Applefritter - https://www.applefritter.com/forum/84 - Apple II and III forum Podcasts Drop III Inches - http://drop-iii-inches.com Open Apple - http://www.open-apple.net - Apple II podcast but with occasional Apple III mentions Current Web Sites Centre for Computing History - http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/210/Apple-III/ Vintage Micros - http://vintagemicros.com/catalog/apple-c-29.html Apple3.org - http://www.apple3.org/ - Documents, magazines, software, emulators, ads Washington Apple Pi Apple III FAQ - https://www.wap.org/a3/a3library/a3faq.html Yesterbits Apple III Software and Scans - https://yesterbits.com/topics/apple-iii-software-and-scans/ Mike Maginnis 6502Lane - http://www.6502lane.net/ David T. Craig scans of a vast amount of material, internal documentation - https://archive.org/search.php?query=dtca3%2A Apple ///: A New Beginning by Apple Computer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY7HRyXgeek Why I Failed with the Apple III and Steve Jobs Succeeded With the Macintosh - https://blog.aha.io/why-i-failed-with-the-apple-iii-and-steve-jobs-succeeded-with-the-macintosh/ by David Fradin, Apple III Product Manager https://twitter.com/davidfradin1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfradin/ The One Thing Melinda Gates Will Keep Forever Is an Apple III - https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a22824572/melinda-gates-apple-iii Archive.org - https://archive.org/search.php?query=apple+iii Cult of Mac - https://www.cultofmac.com/?s=apple+iii Digibarn - http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/appleIII/index.html - Apple III documentation, manuals, interviews, photos References https://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2007-07-14/apple-iii-and-apple-iie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_III http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/archives/appleii/0002.php http://lowendmac.com/2015/apple-iii-chaos-apples-first-failure/ http://www.applelogic.org/AIIIDesignBugs.html  

Chris and AJ just take an episode to talk about their moms. Chris talks about how his mom set him on the career path that he has today. AJ talk about how his 'hip' mom introduced him to the Internets. And both of them talk about how technology can help make more family time. Wherever you are in the world, this episode is dedicated to all the moms out there and thank-you for all that you do for your kids and family. -------That kind of computer Chris talks about: The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6VjsVwRXYk-------That kind of word processor AJ talks about:The Brother Word processorhttps://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/2hea8k/my_brother_wp3410_word_processor/-----Connect*AJ*: patreon.com/ajbarse (http://patreon.com/ajbarse) or follow on Instagram (http://instagram.com/ajbarse) @ajbarse AND an all new www.ajbarse.com (http://www.ajbarse.com/)*Chris*: mnmltek.micro.blog (https://mnmltek.micro.blog/) or chrispowell.co (http://www.chrispowell.co/)*Twitter Hashtags*: #bhampodcast and #quietconversationListenIf you're in the Bellingham area, be sure to listen to our show on KMRE 102.3 FM (http://www.kmre.org/bellingham-podcast-media-tech/) Thursdays @ 9:00 am and Saturdays @ 1:30 pm.TalkGot a question about technology or anything else about life in Bellingham? Call 201-731-8324 (tel:2017318324) (TECH) and leave us a voicemail, and ask us nicely! We may include it in one of our future shows.SubscribeiTunes, Google Play Store, Soundcloud, Spreaker, TuneIn, or wherever else you podcast. And check out our website at bellinghampodcast.com (http://bellinghampodcast.com/)

Chris and AJ just take an episode to talk about their moms. Chris talks about how his mom set him on the career path that he has today. AJ talk about how his 'hip' mom introduced him to the Internets. And both of them talk about how technology can help make more family time. Wherever you are in the world, this episode is dedicated to all the moms out there and thank-you for all that you do for your kids and family. -------That kind of computer Chris talks about: The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6VjsVwRXYk-------That kind of word processor AJ talks about:The Brother Word processorhttps://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/2hea8k/my_brother_wp3410_word_processor/-----Connect*AJ*: patreon.com/ajbarse (http://patreon.com/ajbarse) or follow on Instagram (http://instagram.com/ajbarse) @ajbarse AND an all new www.ajbarse.com (http://www.ajbarse.com/)*Chris*: mnmltek.micro.blog (https://mnmltek.micro.blog/) or chrispowell.co (http://www.chrispowell.co/)*Twitter Hashtags*: #bhampodcast and #quietconversationListenIf you're in the Bellingham area, be sure to listen to our show on KMRE 102.3 FM (http://www.kmre.org/bellingham-podcast-media-tech/) Thursdays @ 9:00 am and Saturdays @ 1:30 pm.TalkGot a question about technology or anything else about life in Bellingham? Call 201-731-8324 (tel:2017318324) (TECH) and leave us a voicemail, and ask us nicely! We may include it in one of our future shows.SubscribeiTunes, Google Play Store, Soundcloud, Spreaker, TuneIn, or wherever else you podcast. And check out our website at bellinghampodcast.com (http://bellinghampodcast.com/)

Jessica Burns from the Amazon Kindle User Experience coding team visits the phone booth for like an hour and a half and Jonnie forgets to hit "record". Culture fit, all-nighter coding sessions, what's really ruining Seattle? Four-Finger Shotguns is a production of Zip! Bang! Wow! in Seattle. For more information abut this podcast, please visit our website at zipbangwow.com/ffs/ The voicemail system of a Russian bot factory isn't very user friendly. You can finally be rid of the dead weight of all that excess money you have. Please visit patreon.com/ffspodcast to unload your burden. So much show notes today: You'd learn a whole lot more about Jessica if you visited all these spots. AMuse-Me.co, Amazon.com/kindle, washingtontechnology.org, apprenticareers.org, pugetsoundpython.com, and fast.ai to name but a few. A few more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A Tombstone City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhwiCKzgGI Take the quiz. https://hackbrightacademy.com Zip! Bang! Wow! teaches you how to podcast, badly, at the Impact Hub Seattle. See impacthubseattle.com for more details. More information about the Symposium of Change on May 21st at chrisrosbough.com  

John Teel of Predictable DesignsJohn Teel Founder of Predictable Designs, a company which helps startups, makers, and small companies develop new electronic products An award-winning design engineer for Texas Instruments (TI) where John designed numerous successful microchips which are found inside millions of popular tech products Predictable Designs Making product development process as predictable as possible Predicting the pitfalls and costs, with a focus on the initial stages of product development Common questions people ask How much will it cost to develop and manufacture my electronics product? How long will it take to get my product on the market? I don't have tons of money, so how can I get my product to market? I don't have any product development experience, so how can I get my product to market? Common mistakes made by new hardware entrepreneurs Underestimating the complexity and time to develop a manufacturable product Scalability of a product from prototype to mass production. Jumping head first into full product design without an understanding of the steps and costs that lie ahead Over focus on product development without enough early focus on marketing Visit our Slack Channel and join the conversation in between episodes and please review us on iTunes!Tags: electronics podcast, John Teel, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Podcast, Predictable Designs

I have a chat with Paul Ogata this week! We talked about him being coming from Hawaii, finding your own voice in standup comedy. He too talked about working with comedy hero Andy Bumatai, twitter handle and the games he wrote with Texas Instruments TI-99/4a that was being pitched by Bill Cosby  Not Again Podcast Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/notagainpodcast/ Not Again Podcast website: https://www.notagainpodcast.com Not Again Podcast iTunes Page: https://itunes.apple.com/sg/podcast/not-again-podcast/id1243363815?mt=2  Not Again Podcast Stitcher Page: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/not-again-podcast Merry Lion Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/themerrylionsg/ 

The HP Series 80 (HP83/85/86/87) This episode is the third and final in a series about the Hewlett Packard HP-85 computer, or more accurately, the entire line of similar computers known as the HP Series 80.  Once again, I have the tremendously knowledgeable duo of Everett Kaser and Vassilis Prevelakis helping me impart information to you about that venerable line of historically significant desktop computers.  In this episode, we will primarily be covering tech specs, peripherals, expansion, magazines and newletters, books, emulation, modern upgrades, connectivity to modern computers, buying one today, community and Web sites.  Wow, now that I list this out, it’s obvious we have a lot to cover.  In addition, I will briefly talk about my new vintage computer acquisitions, feedback and perhaps a little news. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Vic-20 Behr-Bonz Cart - http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7513 TI-59 Gummy Wheel Repair Kit - http://www.ebay.com/itm/TEXAS-INSTRUMENTS-TI-59-CALCULATOR-CARD-READER-GUMMY-WHEEL-REPAIR-KIT-/262695021491 TI Calculator Keyboard - https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-Keyboard-Graphing-Calculators/dp/B00007K7JE Atari Macro Assembler - http://mixinc.net/atari/amac.htm TI-99 Multi-Plan, Porting from Excel - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/245707-porting-from-ms-excel-spreadsheets-to-ms-multiplan-on-the-ti99/ new C64 podcast - Reset magazine - https://soundcloud.com/reset-magazine/reset-podcast-e01-the-hewson-episode Upcoming Shows VCF East - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/, March 31-April 2, 2017, InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ, 07719 KFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/, Rockhurst University, July 18th-23rd Commodore Vegas Expo v13 - July 29-30, 2017, California Hotel & Casino, 12 E. Ogden Ave., downtown Las Vegas, Nevada - http://www.commodore.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=6 Tandy Assembly - Chillicothe, Ohio, The event will tentatively be held on the weekend of 6-8 October 2017 Tech Specs Audio of William Tell Overture from Vassilis Prevelakis recorded as his HP-85B was playing the piece - HP85-WilliamTell.mp3 Speech-Synthesis card - article in Professional Computing - V1N1 page 45 “Series 80 Talks Back” by Loren Koehler - https://groups.io/g/hpseries80/files/Professional%20Computing%20Magazine/Professional%20Computing%20V1N1-1984.pdf Popular Magazines/Newsletters HP’s Basic Exchange Newsletter - available from Museum of HP Calculators document archive or at HP Computer Museum - http://www.hpmuseum.org/software/swcdp.htm#be Professional Computing - for Hewlett Packard Personal Computer Users, 1984-1985 - https://groups.io/g/hpseries80/files/Professional%20Computing%20Magazine News 80s - until late ‘84 migrating readers to Professional Computing - http://www.biblewitness.org/technical/HP_Series-80/ Books/Manuals HP 85 Owner's Manual and Programming Guide - http://www.series80.org/PDFs/HP85-MainBW.pdf The Introduction to the HP-86B - http://www.series80.org/PDFs/HP86B-Intro.pdf The Introduction to the HP-87 - http://www.series80.org/PDFs/Intro87.pdf Software The Forth ROM was recovered with the help of Everett Kaser and Don Person, but was written by Larry Woestman. The following ZIP file contains source code as well as image files for the HP-85 and HP-87: HP-85 / HP-87 Forth ROM: HP_Series_80_Forth.zip André Koppel wrote some utilities for the HP-87 called SYSEXT, which he transferred to a ROM. This can be downloaded together with a manual in German from http://www.akso.de/index.php?id=hp_series_80&L=1 Modern Upgrades expansion - PRM-85 (Bill Kotaska (USA), with support from John Shadbolt (UK))  e-mail if interested HP85 recreation with an FPGA - FPGA HP85B SD or CF card interface - HP85DISK - HP-85 Disk Emulator using AVR and MicroSD card for classic HP series 80 computers - https://github.com/magore/hp85disk by Mike Gore Connectivity to Modern Computers Transferring diskette images from an HP-86/7 to a PC via a serial connection - based on an article by Pete Goffinet published in the PPC Computer Journal (V3N1, January/February 1984) - http://www.series80.org/Articles/uploading-disk-images.html transfer data from an HP85 computer with 5.25" double floppy drive to DOS or UNIX - http://www.series80.org/Articles/xfer-to-dos.txt Emulation Series 80 Emulator by Everett Kaser - http://www.kaser.com/hp85.html Series 80 Emulator by Oliver De Smet - https://sites.google.com/site/olivier2smet2/hpseries80 go87 - Free HP 87 emulator for android - https://sites.google.com/site/olivier2smet2/home/go87 Community https://groups.io/g/hpseries80 http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/ Current Web Sites http://www.kaser.com/hp85.html http://www.series80.org/index.html Museum of HP Calculators - Dave Hicks - http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp85.htm - lots of manuals for the Series 80 HP Computer Museum - http://hpmuseum.net/  Jon Johnston, founder and curator lost his life in April 2016 HP Memory Project - http://www.hpmemoryproject.org/ Larry Atherton's HP-85 refurbishment site. Larry completely rebuilds HP-85 computers , replacing the tape drive with a reliable QIC drive. - http://myworld.ebay.com/la-tech-renewal “Hewlett Packards New Personal Computer, the HP-85”, Byte Magazine V5N3 - http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-03/1980_03_BYTE_05-03_Computers_in_the_Labratory#page/n63/mode/2up HP-85 tear-down video (EEVblog) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5SzKM7g5Ds Dave Jones - Aussie - Electronic Engineering Video Blog HP-85 demo video (EEVblog) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yac6YByAcRc Repairing the HP-85 Computer (EEVblog) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14KncLx5frg CuriousMarc's 16-volume video series on testing and repairing different parts of the HP-85 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrOKgf0Js8A&list=PL-_93BVApb5-EQPTni9sjxKhQsb2BzvWR Article from Byte Magazine about the HP-85 - http://www.series80.org/ByteArticle/index.html HP86B page by Guillaume Tello - http://gtello.pagesperso-orange.fr/hp86_e.htm HP Series 80 Links - http://vintagecomputers.site90.net/hp85/links.htm

Greetings! Welcome to the Holbrook New Media Audio Feed. We do audio, video, content creation, and that other stuff. holbrooknewmedia.com. Today on Episode 17 of The Geoff & Jeffrey show, here are some of the things we are talking about: Our live recording time is not very conducive to people being awake while it is going on. 6:00am Eastern time and 8:00 Australian time. Ms Ileane Smith left a comment on Geoff's YouTube Channel where the video version of the show is posted. https://www.youtube.com/user/glider1b A correction from Episode 16: President Obama did NOT ban the Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag. Jeffrey's image on this episode is very jittery, but the audio sounds great once we used Jeffrey's local recording. A comparison of the video applications Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro. An update on two of the podcasts that Jeffrey has been helping to get started. You are better to go ahead and get started with the risk of doing it wrong instead of not moving at all and accomplishing nothing. Discussing our sound treatment and mic arrangements with our new setup. Trying to hangup and reconnect on Skype didn't help with the jerky video on Jeffrey's end. The "Indian Telemarketers" tried to call again. Jeffrey has had so many inquiries about podcasting that he made a resource page on his website. You can access it at PodcastCurious.com. Geoff found that it was cheaper to buy an Australian microphone in California and take it home than to buy it locally in Australia. Australia is the largest producer of natural gas. They sell it to Japan, but the Japanese prices are 25% cheaper than it is in Australia where it is actually produced. Companies fight the reduction of product demand instead of preparing for what is next in the industry. Getting along with people with opposite points of view. Just being able to discuss things in an unemotional manner. Geoff has the impression that Americans are rarely living where they were raised, it seems its about constantly moving to where the best job is. Jeffrey just had his 30th anniversary working for the U.S. Postal Service. Always be nice to your children since they will be picking your nursing home. When you get older you schedule fun activities around the doctor's appointments. Girls were not interested in computers or online until the tech was taken out of the way and you could easily get on and chat. Tech is moving so quickly. More all the time. Modern uses for out of date computers. Early computers we remember: Commodore Vic 20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20 Commodore 64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 Commodore 128 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_128 Apple 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I Hitachi Peach http://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/hitachi/HitachiPeachBrochure.PDF Texas Instruments TI994a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A Timex-Sinclair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair If you would like to receive the show notes in your email with links for things mentioned in episodes, go to holbrooknewmedia.com. On the right side of the page there is a place to subscribe to the blog. We hope you enjoy the show! Geoff Blanchard's Web Site: geoffblanchard.com All Things Jeffrey K. Holbrook: holbrooknewmedia.com A special thanks for Brother Jon at the Remnant Bible Fellowship Podcast for composing and performing the theme music for the audio version of the show. http://remnantbiblefellowship.libsyn.com A link you click here could be an affiliate link. Affiliate links cost you nothing extra, but help support production costs! Thanks!

Welcome to episode 56 of the Floppy Days Podcast where old computers come to life again.  I’m Randy Kindig.  I want to thank Ian Baronofsky and Rick Reynolds for providing their thoughts and memories of the TI-99 computer.  This is the fifth and final installment in a series of episodes on the TI-99/4A home computer.  This episode will cover TI-99 ads, user groups and shows, emulation, buying one today, community, and Web sites.  My very special co-hosts for this episode are again two well-known figures in the TI-99 community: Chris Schneider, who produces the SHIFT838 newsletter and Rich Polivka, who manages the popular 99er.net Web site.  They provide a ton of information about the amazing TI-994/A home computer.  I hope you enjoy this. Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Juiced.GS Apple II Newsletter - https://juiced.gs/ Commodore 64 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner by Danny Davis - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0861611454/?tag=flodaypod-20 The ZX81 Pocket Book by Trevor Toms - http://www.amazon.com/dp/095073022X/?tag=flodaypod-20 Introduction to Machine Code for Beginners (Usborne Computers & Electronics) - Lisa Watts, Mike Wharton - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0860207358/?tag=flodaypod-20 News Bill Degnan’s “History of Commodore Computers” Poster - http://www.vintagecomputer.net/poster_detail.cfm Floppy Days Logo Contest Poll - https://www.facebook.com/groups/floppydays/permalink/1699121653679601/?qa_ref=qd TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast with Peter Cetinski - http://www.trs80trashtalk.com Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer Podcast with David Greelish - http://www.classiccomputing.com/CCPodcasts/Stan_Veit/Stan_Veit.html VCF Southeast 4.0 - April 2 & 3 2016, Roswell, GA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-southeast-4-0/ VCF East - April 15-17, 2016 - InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ, 07719 - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-southeast-4-0/ 25th Annual Last Chicago CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ - April 23 & 24, 2016, Heron Point Convention Center, Lombard, IL, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-3 TI Fest West 2016 - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/248617-pnw-ti-994a-fest-west-2016-april-30th/ - April 30, Centralia WA KansasFest, 28th edition - https://www.kansasfest.org/ - Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, from Tuesday, July 19, through Sunday, July 24 Atari Party = http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/ - Saturday, July 30th, 2016, 12 p.m -5 p.m., Yolo County Public Library, Davis, CA Vintage Computer Festival West - August 6-7 at the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California. - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/   VCF MIDWEST 11 September 10-11, 2016, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.vcfmw.org/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - 11th annual Expo at the Oregon Convention Center on October 21-23, 2016 - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ Feedback Retrocomputer Museum - http://retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/ Web browser project on the TI written by Stuart Conner - http://www.avjd51.dsl.pipex.com/ti/ti.htm#internet_web_browser TI game that allows people to play chess against each other on the web by Corey Anderson - http://myti99.com Ads “TI’s Home Computer. This is the one!” Ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlU4HTefxmc Another Bill Cosby video ad - $100 rebate (1983) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1nB71Ndmvs Another video ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trNcXw6nRU0 User Groups and Shows Chicago TI-99/4A Users Group - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire Rich attended the 18th faire in 2000 - http://www.99er.net/chicago/chicago.html TI99ers On-Line User Group - http://www.ti99ers.org/news.php TI-99 Club in Vienna, Austria still has regular meetings - http://ti99blog.webs.com/ TI User Group (UK) - In operation for 27 years - http://www.ti99ug.co.uk/index.php TI-99 Italian User Club - http://www.ti99iuc.it/ Emulation Classic99 by Harmless Lion - www.harmlesslion.com/software/classic99 MESS (Multiple Emulator Super System) - http://www.ninerpedia.org/index.php/MESS Using MESS along with TIIMAGETOOL - http://www.ninerpedia.org/index.php/TIImageTool Win994a - TI99/4A Simulator for Windows by Cory Burr - http://www.99er.net/win994a.shtml ‘ASM994A’ program - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/229206-using-asm994a/ TI-99 For Windows (TI99W) by Fred Kaal - http://www.ti99-geek.nl/ JS99er - http://www.js99er.net V9T9 Emulator - http://eswartz.github.io/emul/ TIGAMEROOM - http://www.ti99iuc.it/web/go?94RUNC PC99 from CaDD electronics - http://www.cadd99.com Community TI 99er’s Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2209774843/ 99er.net Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/The-Ti-994a-Home-Computer-Page-196432643721232/timeline/ Yahoo Online Groups - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ti99-4a/info , https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TI994A/info AtariAge - http://ti99.atariage.com/ Google+ - TI99 Videos (YouTube) - https://plus.google.com/+Globeron-TI99VIDEOS/videos Web Sites TI Magazines - http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/micro/micro.html TI-99/4A Home Computer Page (Rich Polivka) - http://www.99er.net/ (or .org, but not .com) Bill Gaskill’s TI Timeline - http://www.ti99ers.org/timeline/ , http://www.99er.net/hist1.html TI-99/4A Home Computer Book Archive - http://www.hexbus.com/tibooks/ Archive.org - http://archive.org Mainbyte - http://mainbyte.com  - great reference site for TI-99/4A material hardware and command references as well as hardware projects for building and upgrades Video Game House - http://www.videogamehouse.net/ - Covers game carts for the TI; Manuals, boxes, screenshots, trivia TI Tech Pages - http://www.nouspikel.com/ti99/titechpages.htm - Architecture, processor, memory, peripherals, upgrades, programming. TI-99/4A Game Shelf - http://tigameshelf.net/ - Collection of disk/cassette images for use with emulators.  Frequently updated, good instructions. WikiPedia for the TI-99 - http://Ninerpedia.org Hexbus - http://www.hexbus.com/TI-99_4A_Home_Computer_Page/The_TI-99_4A_Home_Computer_Page.html - John Guidry’s site for hardware and software for the TI-99/4a TI99 Geek - http://www.ti99-geek.nl/ - Fred Kaals site.  Designer of the HDX upgrade (store files on a PC via serial connection); many good projects and programs. Arcade Shopper - http://www.arcadeshopper.com   Original carts (Rasmus), cartridge boards, eproms Tex*In Treasures - http://www.texintreasures.com/ - Used to have NOS & used TI and CC40 items. Site still available, but has been showing maintenance message for months. Rabbit Engineering - http://www.rabbitengineering.com/ has mini TI99 ‘models’ Zazzle - http://www.zazzle.com/jchildre has Alpiner and Wumpus shirts/hats; Cafe press stores (search TI-99) Terry Stewart (Tezza) video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6VjsVwRXYk The TI99ers Online User Group - http://www.ti99ers.org.  It is intended to be a "clearinghouse" for TI-99/4A and compatibles information. TI99ers Hall of Fame - http://www.ti99hof.org/ The Western Horizon Technologies FTP server - ftp://ftp.whtech.com - maintained by Don O'Neil and, through the efforts of many but most notably Charles Good, has become the premiere archive of TI-99 and related material TOSEC collection at archive.org - https://archive.org/details/Texas_Instruments_TI-99_4a_TOSEC_2012_04_23

The TI-99/4A - Tech Specs, Peripherals, Modern Upgrades with Tursi This show is a continuation of the on-going series about the TI-99/4A computer.  In the last couple of episodes, I had TI-99 fans Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills on the show and interviewed them about their experiences with the TI-99 and then we covered the history of the machine.  In this show, I have a new co-host, Mike Brent, better known as Tursi or Harmless Lion, the creator of the Classic 99 emulator and so much more.  After a short interview with Tursi, we discuss the technical aspects of the TI-99, including the tech specs, peripherals, modern upgrades, and connectivity to modern computers.  It’s an information-filled show, so I hope you enjoy it. Before we get into that, I’ll discuss a few new vintage computer-related acquisitions that have come my way, give you the scoop on upcoming shows, and share with you a few pieces of feedback I’ve received about the show from listeners. Links Mentioned in the Show: Intro Bill Degnan’s VintageComputer.net - http://www.vintagecomputer.net Bill Degnan’s “History of Commodore Computers” Poster - http://www.vintagecomputer.net/poster_detail.cfm New Acquisitions “The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies)” - Jimmy Maher, The MIT Press - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262017202/?tag=flodaypod-20 Tiny Pascal for the TRS-80 Model I - https://archive.org/details/Tiny_Pascal_1982_Tandy News Amigospodcast - http://www.amigospodcast.com/ TRS-Box - Dropbox client for MISE/M3SE equipped TRS-80 - http://pski.net/trs-box/ Upcoming Shows VCF Southeast 4.0 - April 2 & 3 2016, Roswell, GA VCF East - April 15-17, 2016 - InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, NJ, 07719 - http://www.vintagecomputerfederation.org/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 25th Annual Last Chicago CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ - April 23 & 24, 2016, Heron Point Convention Center, Lombard, IL, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-3 VCF Midwest 11 September 10-11, 2016, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://www.vcfmw.org/ Feedback TI-99 Beginner’s Video by Roland - https://youtu.be/I-S-BmJCV_c Roland’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/VectrexRoli/ Interview with Co-host Tursi’s Web Site - http://www.harmlesslion.com Classic 99 Emulator by Tursi - http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/showprog.cgi?search=Classic99 PS/2 Keyboard Adapter for the TI-99 by Tursi - http://atariage.com/forums/blog/567/entry-11851-a-ps2-keyboard-on-a-ti-994a/ UberGROM Simulator by Tursi - http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/showprog.cgi?search=uber Modern Upgrades/Connectivity F18A Video Upgrade by Matthew Hagerty - http://codehackcreate.com/store#!/F18A-V1-7-Video-Board/p/14022176/category=0 Extended BASIC 2.7 Suite Cartridge by Tony Knerr - http://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/Extended-Basic-2-7-Suite/p/44354005/category=15846004 Turbo Forth for the TI-99/4A by Mark Wills - http://turboforth.net FBForth by Lee Stewart - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/210660-fbforthti-forth-with-file-based-block-io-post-1-updated-12082015/ NanoPEB and CF7+ - http://webpages.charter.net/nanopeb/ HDX update for the RS232 card by Fred Kaal - http://www.ti99-geek.nl/ Reference Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

The TI-99/4A - History, with Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills This is the second in a multi-part series on the TI-99/4A computer.  For this history segment, I was lucky enough to find a couple of people who have an incredible history with the TI-99, Jim Fetzner and Mark Wills.  Jim has an extensive, multilingual library of all things TI and possesses some very interesting hardware items related to the TI-99.  Mark is the author of TurboForth for the TI-99/4A and has been involved in the TI-99/4A scene pretty much since 1983.  He’s also English, living in the UK, so he has a rather British take on the home computer wars.  I will cover TI-99 history with the help of these two gentlemen.  I think you will find this very interesting! Links Mentioned in the Show: Intro Bill Degnan’s VintageComputer.net - http://www.vintagecomputer.net Bill Degnan’s “History of Commodore Computers” Poster - http://www.vintagecomputer.net/poster_detail.cfm New Acquisitions Tricky Tutorial #5 (Player/Missile Graphics for the Atari - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-tricky-tutorial-no--5-player-missile-graphics_28271.html Tricky Tutorial #6 (Sound and Music) for the Atari - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-tricky-tutorial-no--6-sound-and-music_28278.html Tricky Tutorial #11 (Memory Map) for the Atari - http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-tricky-tutorial-no-11-memory-map-tutorial_28283.html Atari Logo - http://www.atarimagazines.com/v2n6/logo.html Atari 130XE Package from Ron Luks - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208571288938997&set=gm.1662349070709066&type=3&theater REX for M100 - http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=REX Club 100 - Club for the TRS-80 Model 100 - http://www.club100.org/ TRS-80 Model 100 Mailing List Subscription Page - http://lists.bitchin100.com/listinfo.cgi/m100-bitchin100.com HP-85B Owner’s Guide and Programming Manual - http://www.greendyk.nl/hp85/ News Stan Veit Audiobook Podcast, published by David Greelish - http://www.classiccomputing.com/CCPodcasts/Stan_Veit/Stan_Veit.html RetroChallenge 2016/01 - http://www.retrochallenge.org/ The M3SE Project by Peter Bartlett - http://bartlettlabs.com/M3SE/ Vintage is the New Old - http://vintageisthenewold.com VCF Southeast 4.0 - April 2 & 3 2016, Roswell, GA VCF East - April 15-17, 2016 - InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://www.vintagecomputerfederation.org/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ 25th Annual Last Chicago CoCoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ - April 23 & 24, 2016, Heron Point Convention Center, Lombard, IL Feedback Quantum Link - https://www.tinytickle.co.uk/quantum-link/ History Bill Gaskill’s TI-99 Timeline - http://www.ti99ers.org/timeline/timeline.htm Ron Albright’s “Orphan Chronicles” - https://archive.org/details/tibook_the-orphan-chronicles Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A  

In This Episode Guest –  MVP Eric Courville Interview http://organicit.org/ https://twitter.com/_organicit http://www.meetup.com/Northern-California-Powershell-User-Group/   Chatroom Highlights https://slack.com/ https://powershell.slack.com or maybe it's slack.poshcode.org http://slack.poshcode.org hit that latter link later ( http://slack.poshcode.org/ ) - you sign up there, it invites you the community its slack.poshcode.org http://slack.poshcode.org for the invite http://powershell.org/wp/2014/05/14/episode-269-powerscripting-podcast-u-s-powershell-summit-recap/ https://www.trustedsec.com/podcast/ http://talkpython.fm/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/containers-come-to-windows-with-new-windows-server-2016-beta/ https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/announcing-windows-server-2016-containers-preview http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/what-s-new-in-windows-server-2016-preview-jump-start https://blog.docker.com/2015/08/tp-docker-engine-windows-server-2016/ http://powershell.org/wp/2015/07/22/episode-304-powerscripting-podcast-ben-armstrong-from-microsoft-on-windows-containers/ https://mesosphere.com/ http://kubernetes.io/ https://www.heroku.com/ https://www.cloudfoundry.org/ https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/657722 http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Windows-10-Task-View.png http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/09/09/using-the-convertfrom-string-cmdlet-to-parse-structured-text/ oops :wink: http://dougfinke.com/blog/powershell-v5-0-convertfrom-string-buddy/ If you want to learn about classes you should watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkwyhUc-xRQ http://www.meetup.com/Northern-California-Powershell-User-Group/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A http://geek-whisperers.com/2015/04/succeeding-by-knowing-your-customers-with-rachel-perkins-ep-83/ https://www.zoom-na.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/zoom-h5-handy-recorder http://tascam.com/product/hs-p82/   Question First Computer - Some model of Texas Instruments computer