{"id":6949,"date":"2025-10-29T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=6949"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:17:45","slug":"episode-786-it-came-from-the-mainframe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2025\/10\/29\/episode-786-it-came-from-the-mainframe\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 786: It Came From the Mainframe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 786\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tB89iGsDDRg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Listen below with the audio player or <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-1O5\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3219\">Click Here<\/a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5812\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6949-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep786_251028.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep786_251028.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep786_251028.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep786_251028.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep786_251028.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Feedback<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>QOTW: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/technoramapodcast\/posts\/pfbid026W7LvrBSvjWK5jy5JZA6eSFUArpKs77THhkxqiXSx2q1ishCLtgaC5YVvYARAUFEl\">You get a\u00a0 one minute trip to the past or future\u2026what do you do with it?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/channels\/455731709984636958\/1425123038856478862\">Feedback from Discord<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Voice mail from \u201cmystery man (Mike)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Post cards from Japan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On This Day In History for October 29, 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the 302nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 63 days remaining in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On October 29, 1675, Leibniz made the first use of the long s (\u222b) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was 162 years ago today that Eighteen countries met in Geneva and agreed to form the International Red Cross<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That same date in 1929 was known as Black Tuesday. The New York Stock Exchange crashed, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was on this date in 1969, that the first-ever computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opened the last stretch of the M25 motorway on this date in 1986.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also on October 29, 1991, The American Galileo spacecraft made its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States was inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission 27 years ago today.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On that same mission, 77-year-old John Glenn became the oldest person to go into space at that time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 29, 2008, Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world&#8217;s largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>French historian, explorer, and author, Pierre Fran\u00e7ois Xavier de Charlevoix, born on this date in 1682.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>English mathematician and astronomer, Martin Folkes was born 335 years ago today.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laura Bassi, the Italian physicist and academic, first woman to have a doctorate in science was born 314 years ago today.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Italian astronomer and meteorologist, Caterina Scarpellini, born on this date in 1808.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Abram Ioffe, the Russian physicist and academic was born 145 years ago today.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright was born on that same date in 1923.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also turning 68 today is American actor, voice artist, comedian, singer and producer Dan Castellaneta.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also born on that same date in 1971,\u00a0 American mathematician, cryptologist, and academic, Daniel J. 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