Feb 22, 2022
This
episode we blast off at warp speed! We're looking at Star Trek, a
game written in BASIC in 1971. Examining this game gives us some
insight into the early spread of BASIC. Along the way we will see
the issue with paper, why strings matter, and how software was
distributed before the Internet.
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Feb 7, 2022
Cybernetics is broadly defined as the study of control
and communications, with a special emphasis on feedback-based
systems. Put another way: cybernetics is the study of the flow of
data. Predating computer science by decades, cybernetics offers up
an interesting view of computing. But of course, there's a lot more
to...
