Benjamin Law
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327 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 3d ago
Benjamin Law’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So in those early days, if they're using these computers, they're programming with it, what are they programming and what were they doing?
Like, were they connecting it to screens or anything like that?
What was the output of what they were making?
Sounds like such an era of development and experimentation and, of course, programming.
Mel, is it true that programming itself has a really unexpected origin story, that there's a link between technology
computing and weaving of all
What's
Huh.
So weaving in some ways is the first form of computation.
And what were those early computers actually doing with those punch cards that you mentioned?
And so in the 1970s in Silicon Valley, you've got people, I imagine rich people, bringing giant metal boxes into their homes, programming them.
When does computing become more in reach to, say, everyday people?
When does that become feasible?
And so what was the thesis behind Commodore 64?
It wanted to be made for everyone and he wanted to change what exactly with it?
So Jack wanted to make the Commodore 64 democratic and popular.
Did it become popular?
So it became a really popular computer.
They bought this microprocessor company so they didn't have to outsource their technology.
Can I ask a really basic question, Mel?
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