Steven Sinofsky
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 6d ago
Steven Sinofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so it's a brochure from IBM explaining what a computer might be.
Not even is.
And it's like, it took millions of years to invent and recognize the usefulness of the wheel.
That's the opening sentence of the, and, but like, people were eating the stuff up.
It
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.
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