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| Episode: 157 Date: 09-13-06 Format: chatlog |
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#157 - 09/13/2006 - total running time 124:25
0:53 - intro (new show intro, 3 year anniversary)
2:21 - Brian Bagnall, author of "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore" is our guest tonight
3:20 - why write this book?, how long did it take you to write the book?
7:00 - tracking down all the key commodore people
11:18 - Jack Tramiel was tipped off that Brian was trying to get a hold of him
14:00 - Atlantic Acceptance scandal in Canada in the early days of Commodore
16:40 - Stockholm syndrome from Jack Tramiel's victims? getting exiled by Jack
20:40 - the first Commodore computer was the PET, it was geared towards business
21:30 - Commodore was always popular in Europe
28:10 - Pirates of Silicon Valley was not very accurate in regards to the popularity of Apple
30:54 - Irving Gould had the final say at Commodore
34:20 - Tramiel always wanted a lowend machine for the masses
38:35 - Gould fires Tramiel, Tramiel then goes and buys Atari
43:50 - the Amiga story, Commodore wound up paying way too much for it
50:50 - video toaster (video effects) was used in the multimedia industry for a long time
56:00 - "what-if" they didn't screw up, Apple almost went out of business as well in 1994
60:00 - evil business practices in the computer industry, stories that didn't make it into the book
65:10 - Bil Herd is a very interesting person
68:00 - favorite Commodore games, Commodore game emulators works great
73:00 - Commodore vs Texas Instruments, voice synthesis in the early days
76:30 - Brian is a Java programmer working on Lego Mindstorms, has written other books
88:00 - Commodore game emulators, self contained joystick games, Commodore commercials
89:48 - Pat's MythTV article, IR blasters. Tivo sues Dish Network
96:30 - TLLTS DVDs will be available at OLF
97:30 - Linc checks out some gui clients for Subversion
100:28 - Dan talks about tips for using GIMP
108:50 - Judland did our logo with Inkscape
109:10 - please help us mirror our episodes, we need someone to host our high quality ogg torrent
113:02 - Snakebite makes seeding torrents really easy
114:40 - wrap-up (frappr map shoutouts, Ohio meetup, upcoming guests)
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