Technorama Ep481 : Last Stop before DragonCon!

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Self Driving Cars
Nasa is Outsourcing more stuff
Apologies all around

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Dean Jensen

Hi guys,
My first introduction to Oregon Trail was on the MECC Teletype computer. We would log in to MECC with a 300 baud acoustical coupler. The computer would save your work to ticker tape. Link: Google Images
Everything was a text prompt. To hunt you had to type bang. if you did not type fast enough, you missed. And I laugh now at fast enough because it was over a 300 baud modem.
Here are a few links to the beginnings:
The Origin of the Oregon Trail Computer Game – Tested.com

This link was the closest I could find to the output code:
How the Oregon Trail (Computer Game) Was Formed
Oh how I wish I kept one of the printouts from then. Maybe there is one in my old Apple IIc box.

On This Day In History for August 24, 2016
This is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining in 2016.

It was on this date in 79 that Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24).
The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, was written 1622 years ago today.
The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed on this date in 1456.
William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania 334 years ago today.
141 years ago today, Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel.
It was 125 years ago today that Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
That same date in 1909, Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey) 84 years ago today.
August 24, 1967, Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon 35 years ago today.
It was 27 years ago today that Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America on this date in 1995.
That same date in 1998, First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom
It was 10 years ago today that The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term “planet” such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Danish horticulturalist and astronomer, Sophia Brahe born on this date in 1556.
Also born on that same date in 1880, Joshua Lionel Cowen, American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation.
Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, Valentine Baker, was born today in 1888.
Born August 24, 1902, Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss.
One of our favorite actors, W. Morgan Sheppard, is 84.
The man in the R2D2 costume, Kenny Baker would have been 82 today.
American physicist and academic, Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr. was born on this date in 1936.
Gregory Jarvis, American captain, engineer, and astronaut was born August 24, 1944.
Tim D. White, American paleoanthropologist and academic Tim D. White is 66.
American actor and producer Steve Guttenberg is 58.
Kyrgyzstani-Russian lieutenant pilot and astronaut, Salizhan Sharipov, is 52.
Dave Chappelle, American comedian, actor, Dave Chappelle is 43.
and Kes, from Star Trek Voyager, actress and producer Jennifer Lien is 42.

Listener birthday calendar for Aug 24-30

24 – Kira Fiore (Krazy Joe & Christine’s daughter)
24 – Anne Stringer
24 – Rick Stringer
25 – David “Grizzly” Smith from Grizzly’s Growls podcasts
26 – SF Edwards
27 – Chuck’s forgotten iPod
30 – Maximilian Björsten, Stockholm Sweden
31 – Tim Downing
31 – Russell Emanuel’s birthday

If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 24, 2016

News

Hacks & Strange Stories

Photos: Homebrew CPUs, IBM mainframes, amazing replicas, and more from Vintage Computer Festival West XI – Page 8 – TechRepublic

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