S4 E7 Command Line Heroes

Gaming consoles are pioneering machines. The Dreamcast pushed the limits of what even consoles could do. But that wasn't ...

Creating a machine that thinks seemed like the stuff of science fiction in the 1950s. Hear how John McCarthy made it a reality with ...

EPISODE 7

A secret project. Limited resources. And a team that refused to give up.

Command Line Heroes

The story of a small team of rebel employees at General Electric who built a mainframe that pushed computing from a niche ...

Hardware hacking didn't disappear after personal computers became mainstream. But it did change. A new generation of artists, ...

Few could imagine what a handheld computer would look like—or even do. But a trio of visionaries saw where computing was ...

Aristotle and Erastosthenes are big names in geodesy. They got pretty close to measuring the size of the Earth. But the woman ...

The Altair 8800 was initially designed for hobbyists. But a few visionaries saw massive potential in this strange little machine.

The floppy disk was one of the greatest breakthroughs in computing. It helped spin up the software industry. And has conserved ...

To create a thinking machine, you first need to give it a language. Listen to past episodes and subscribe to the podcast at: ...

No one ever said hardware was easy.