Retro Computing Roundtable

RCR Episode 252: UNIVAC liked Ike

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Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, and Carrington Vanston

Topic: UNIVAC liked Ike

Episode 252 relates to 1952. The year when UNIVAC correctly called the election early and nobody believed it. The year the paper introducing the Huffman code compression algorithm was published. And the 50th anniversary of all the things that happened in 1902.

Topic/Feedback links:

  • UNIVAC predicts the 1952 election
  • CBS news election coverage, 1952
  • A method for the constructions of minimum-redundancy codes (Sep 1952, Proceedings of the I.R.E.)
  • The Huffman algorithm, and family
  • Stuffit end of life announcement
  • Mac Folklore Radio, Raymond Lau (Stuffit) interviews
  • RetroMagazine World, issue 13 (EN)
  • David Ahl’s magazine auctions, some signed
  • The Capacitor Plague
  • The Lost Sectors, playthrough of Deathlord

    • Retro Computing News:

    • Monmouth College typewriter class
    • TubeTime’s QuadLink repair and reverse engineering project
    • Apple patenting the home computer?
    • The Amiga Show
    • Apple II video to HDMI using Raspberry Pi Zero/Pico
    • Teardown of a Minitel terminal

      • Vintage Computer(-related) commercials etc.:

      • Remington Quiet-riter

        • Retro Computing Gift Idea:

        • The Colouring Book of Retro Computers
        • Highlighters for reproducing yellowing

          • Auction Picks:

          • Carrington:
            • Computer Bug
            • 1990s Tech Stock Bubble in a can
            • Paul:
              • Woz near Steve Jobs
              • Tim Cook near Steve Jobs
              • Steve Jobs Rare
              • Just Stuffit World Tour shirt
              • AutoDoubler
              • PKZIP 2.70
              • Multiputer

                • Feedback/Discussion:

                • @rcrpodcast on Twitter
                • Vintage Computer Forum
                • RCR Podcast on Facebook
                • Throwback Network
                • Throwback Network on Facebook

                  • Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X

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