Archive for July, 2012

History of Atari, scrambls messages, video games past-prestent-future, and much more.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Nolan Bushnell

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Running time: 1:27:22

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Is SOPA back? DirecTV and Viacomm have a cat fight, but there’s also a cat film festival, and more.

Guest: Loyd Case

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Running time: 47:03

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

A new $99 game console, Verizon wants to edit the Internet, RIM shakes things up, and more.

Guest: Peter Wells

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Running time: 49:37

1976 – K&E produced its last slide rule, which it presented to the Smithsonian Institution. While slide rules continue to be made, especially for marine and aviation uses, K&E had been the dominant manufacturer, and this signaled the end of an era, and the rise of the electronic calculator.

In 1979 – The US space station Skylab returned to Earth scattering debris over the Indian ocean and Western Australia.

In 2008 – Apple’s second phone, the iPhone 3G went on sale, featuring 3G data connectivity.

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Apple stops being green, Kindle Fire specs leaked, Microsoft announces new Windows dates, and more.

Guest: Erica Ogg

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Running time: 51:25

In 1856 – Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Lika, Croatia, which was then part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire. His father was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother an inventor of household appliances.

In 1962 – The world’s first communication satellite, Telstar, was launched into orbit from cape Canaveral on a Delta rocket.

In 1990 – The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formally founded, immediately coming to the aid of Steve Jackson Games, who’s BBS had been seized by the Secret Service.

Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt

Time Warner Cable’s usage based billing, 4D coming soon, moral dilemma around HBO Go subscription, and more.

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Running time: 1:10:14

In 1971 – Marc Andreessen was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He would grow up to develop the Netscape browser, which powered the explosion of the Web in the late 1990s.

In 1979 – Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Jupiter, coming within 570,000 kilometers of the planet.

In 1982 – Disney released the movie Tron, which used the most extensive computer-generated graphics and special effects to that time.

In 1908 – Charles Urban demonstrated Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion-picture process, at a scientific meeting in Paris attended by Auguste and Louis Lumière.

In 1946 – The University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering began summer school course on computing that inspired the EDSAC, BINAC, and, many other similar computers.

In 2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on the final Space Shuttle mission.