An airhacks.fm conversation with Ken Fogel (@omniprof) about:

Digi-Comp I 3bit computer by Admin Scientific,

programming with small pieces of plastic,

a course in fortran,

a service person in a mail room working 20mins a day,

borrowing 5000 dollars and buying Apple II for 2000 dollars in 1980,

buying a floppy disk drive for 700 dollars,

starting with AppleSoft Basic by Microsoft,

learning assembly language to improve performance,

presentation at the university to introduce Apple computer,

controlling a water filtration system with Apple II,

writing conversion for word processors in PL 1,

WordPerfect, IBM MultiMate, WordStar,

starting at the University to teach COBOL,

teaching project courses,

good bye Cobol in 2000,

starting with Java in 1999,

replacing the mainframe with Java,

Java 1.4 was the most amazing thing,

developer works and alpha works websites,

IBM’s Jikes compiler,

a short history of .net,

$10k for Cobol,

Oracles JDeveloper,

Borland JBuilder,

Sun Java Workshop and Sun Java Studio,

From JDeveloper to Eclipse,

From Eclipse to NetBeans,

Netbeans just works,

a message from Geertjan Wielenga,

the invitation to JavaOne,

JavaOne - the geeks heaven,

NetBeans Days and DOScon in Montreal,

the jChampions conference,

Visual Studio Code is written in typescript,

Visual Basic had the most amazing switch case,

Java 17 and the new switch case,

the executive JCP member,

learn to program Java by Springer,

writing all the code in main method,

writing a Java book,