Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #100: The Computing History of Two Geeks

by , 10:40 PM EDT, April 16th, 2007

Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For Tuesday, April 16, 2007

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After working hard to make all the back-end code work with three-digit episode numbers, John and Dave take a break to tour back over their 20-plus year friendship, the computers they've owned, and more. Not your typical Geek Gab, but not one to be missed, either.

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Note: No show next week. John's birthday and Dave's on vacation! Back on the 30th

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Stuff mentioned:

• PDP-8
• Teleprinter
• Colossal Cave adventure game
• Punched tape data storage
• Apple II series
• Lemonade Stand
• PET 2001
• Timex Sinclair 1000
• TRS-80
• Apple //e
• Wizardry series
• Novation APPLE-CAT II modem
• Blue box
• Apple II accelerators (including Zip Chip)
• Applied Engineering expansion products
• Apple IIc
• RS-232 serial connection
• Diversi-Dial
• PDP-6
• Apple UniDisk 3.5
• Pascal
• Macintosh SE
• Macintosh SE/30
• Macintosh II
• Macintosh IIci
• Power Computing Mac clones
• Hypnotic Clambake
• PowerBook 520c
• PowerBook G3 series
• PowerBook G4
• MacBook Pro
• PowerMac G4
• TiBook
• PowerMac G5
• Diversidial.com

• "24" Reviews Podcast from iPodObserver
• Podcast and New Media Expo
• NationStates - Come join the "Geeks Unite" region. Learn more from Wikipedia.

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This podcast is recorded on a Mac using Audio Hijack Pro. As for equipment, John is using a Behringer C-1 microphone going through a Behringer Eurorack UB1222FX-PRO mixer, monitored with Etymotic ER-6i Isolator earphones, then straight in to his Mac. On Dave's end, a Heil PR-40 microphone is used, and the whole show is mixed "live" through a Mackie Onyx 1220 FireWire-enabled mixer before being pumped back into the Mac (via FireWire, of course), and is monitored with Ultimate Ears UE-7 Ambient earphones. Each microphone is run through a channel on a Behringer Autocom Pro-XL MDX1600 compressor, a touch of reverb is added with an ART FX-1 processor, and the whole thing is then compressed in software on the Mac. The show is recorded to AIFF, and then converted and uploaded with an Automator script. Michael, aka Computernap, then goes through and enhances the show to provide you with the AAC version. You can hear more details of the setup and how it's mixed on Episode #32.

Theme Music: "The Answer", written by Jeff Steblea and Brian Ayles, as performed by Go Figure. "Made On A Mac" bumper by Mark Fleser

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