Advent of Computing

By: Sean Haas
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  • Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.
    Sean Haas 2019
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Episodes
  • Episode 145 - Zuse's Mysterious Machines

    Episode 145 - Zuse's Mysterious Machines
    Nov 11 2024

    In 1933 Konrad Zuse, a German civil engineer, caught the computing bug. It would consume the rest of his life. According Zuse he invented the world's first digital computer during WWII, working in near total isolation within the Third Reich. How true is this claim? Today we are looking at Zuse's early machines, the Z1, Z2, and Z3.

    Selected Sources:

    The Computer -- My Life, by Konrad Zuse

    https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.1886 - Z1 Architecture paper by Rojas

    https://sci-hub.se/10.1109/85.707574 - Z3... Turing Complete? also by Rojas
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Episode 144 - RABBITS

    Episode 144 - RABBITS
    Oct 27 2024

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    21 mins
  • Episode 143 - The Haunted Hard Drive

    Episode 143 - The Haunted Hard Drive
    Oct 20 2024

    Have you ever felt like a computer just refuses to work? Like a machine has a mind of it's own? In 1970 a hard drive at the National Farmers Union Corp. office decided to do just that. That year it started crashing for apparently no reason. It would take 2 years and 56 crashes to sort out the problem. The ultimate solution would leave more questions than answers. Was the hard drive haunted? Or was something else at play?

    Selected Sources:

    https://archive.org/details/computercrime0000mckn/page/98/mode/2up - Computer Crime

    https://archive.org/details/sim_computerworld_1972-08-02_6_31/mode/1up?view=theater - Computer World article
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    22 mins

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