PodCast! Episode 1 - The Road

Well here we are. The very first podcast. "The Road" is about my experiences growing up in an age when computers, as we know them, were born. In this show, I recall my first experience with a computer and what it was like back in the late seventies.

To the left here is a picture of an ASR-33 Teletype which is where I spend a fair amount of my high school years sitting behind. Running at a blistering 110 baud, it's a far cry from computing today but at the time it was quite advanced considering the state of computers at that peroid.

Missing from the picture is the acoustic coupler used to connect the phone that we used to dial up the Digital PDP-10 mainframe down at Bowdin College in Brunswick, Maine.



Here is picture of a stand-alone one. Ours was was attached to the right side of the teletype.




Here is another picture of an ASR-33 Teletype.

Quite the Beast eh?

Pictured below is a couple of pictures of what this thing was connected to...

A Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10 MainFrame.

Sure glad they aren't this big today!

Next Week: Part Two of "The Road" where I'll talk a little about life after high school, my experiences in the Military and my very first personal computer.

See ya then!

PodCast: Epidode 1 - The Road

http://marsman.members.dragonwolves.com/Mars_Mumbles_Episode_1.mp3

Running Time: 25:29