Steven Sinofsky
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5,566 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 4d ago
Steven Sinofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But here's the part that I want to get to.
It talks about computers, and it's the two families of computers.
Yeah.
And so, of course, you get the slide rule.
Yeah.
And that's explaining the history.
And what this is really leading up to is we could do this for text, too.
Yeah.
And so the idea, I mean, like, imagine who's reading this in 1953 that it has to explain hex and decimal and binary and compare it to Roman.
That's amazing.
Because, like, nobody knew.
What is the name of that thing?
It's just called IBM Light on the Future.
I love this.
With, like, a rocket test tube-ish spotlight-looking thing.
And it's incredible.
There's, like, oscilloscope waves in the back.
It is the most incredible thing.
It has this dictionary in the back.
Imagine the first time someone explains a computer and the dictionary is, you know, arithmetic unit.
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