April 16, 2007

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

1 hour 10 minutes

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!

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

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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

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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.

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