Aug 27, 2023
I will admit, the title here is a bit of click bait. In the early 1950s a researcher named Nils Aall Barricelli started in on a bold project. His goal was to simulate evolution on a computer and, in doing so, create a perfect lab to study evolutionary processes. What he found was astonishing. Given a simple rule set...
Aug 26, 2023
This episode is simply a reading of the Story of Mel. I opened last episode with an excerpt, but didn't feel right leaving it at that. So, I present, the Story of Mel as written by Ed Nather and preserved in the Jargon file.
Aug 15, 2023
In 1956 Librascope released the
LGP-30, a truly wild machine. It was, for the time, the most simple
and cheap machine that could actually be useful. It was the size of
a desk when contemporary machines took up small rooms. It plugged
into a normal wall outlet while other machines requires special
power feeds. It was,...
