HPR0700: Tech Tales of April's Past
Hosted by MrGadgets on 2011-04-08 00:00:00 Download or Listen
History of Computing
- Don Lancaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lancaster
- TV Typewriter Cookbook
- Electronic kit to turn a TV and keyboard into a teletype replacement
- Postscript as a language
- Apple LaserWriter had a Postscript interpreter
- Usable as a computational engine
- Contributions to a number of magazines
- April Fools joke: Apple II extension card using RS232 to make a small matter transporter
- Bart Busschots (NosillaCast podcast and others)
- Why does PDF run code and open security holes?
Notes added 2019-07-05
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