Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The Paul Andrew Mitchell Episode Dec 24, 2021

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The Paul Andrew Mitchell Episode : A Relatively Infamous Presentation, Lifetimes Ago, A Quick Recap, What's Happened Since, What P.A.M. Represents, Podcast Fuel, A Bit Player, The Most Important Lesson. A little revisiting of that awesome time I was sued for two billion dollars. The presentation, if you've missed it, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY

The DOS Applesauce Episode Dec 20, 2021

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The DOS Applesauce Episode: A Package Arrives, The Difficulty of DOS, The Rolls Royce of Drives, The Variations, The Extra Steps Applesauce Takes, Reading Directories, The Cog in the Machine, The Software Future. Some words appreciating the release of the newest Applesauce utility disk reader, now capable of reading DOS disks, which make up the vast majority of my backlog.

Applesauce FDC: https://www.applesaucefdc.com

The Death Threats Episode Dec 17, 2021

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The Death Threats Episode: A Favorite Co-Worker, Stairs and a Truck, The Ease of Communication, Wikipedia Real Names, A Threat Through a Window, BBS and MUD and Internet, The Vintage of Threats for Internet Archive, Homeless With a Phone, 13 Years of Mail, A Price Worth Paying. Plus: A Matter of a Bill Death threats I've gotten over the years, plus some thoughts regarding my opinion of them and how it's shifted over time.

The Music Tour Episode Dec 13, 2021

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The Music Tour Episode: Visiting the Music House, Waiting Outside, Tour by Tom, The Saloon and the General Store, The Magic of Tour Guides, The Missing Archive Tour Guide, A Moment With Tom. The Music House, in Traverse City, MI: https://musichouse.org/

The Wires and Sleeping Episode Dec 10, 2021

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The Wires and Sleeping Episode: Decades Among a Bed of Wires, The Connection To My Work, The Secret Sleeping Place At Work, A Low Hum, An Experiment to Split the Wires. I have taken on a separate office to do my archive and history work, and it is paying dividends, but I look back on a lifetime of living like a cross between a hacker and a raccoon.

The Stolen Account Episode Dec 06, 2021

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The Stolen Account Episode: A Need to Get Online, TERMINUS, Harvard Square, Harvard, A Machine Room, A Useful Utility, A Ghost Among the Terminals, My Musician Buddy, What Did We Learn. A sordid tale of internet access acquisition representing times in need of more of a hustle. Terminus is long dead, but someone kept the name for a text adventure: https://web.mit.edu/mprat/Public/web/Terminus/Web/main.html

The Carousel of Nightmares Episode Dec 03, 2021

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The Carousel of Nightmares Episode: Rocks and Mineral Apertif, The House on the Rock, My 30 Year Wait, Roadside Obscurity Lost, The House, The Rooms, The Collections of Collections of Collections, Was I Always In The House, A Bonus Dream

The House on the Rock: https://www.thehouseontherock.com/

The Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Episode Oct 20, 2021

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The Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Episode.

A strongest recommendation for a cure of one of my biggest problems.

The ZX-81 Episode Oct 13, 2021

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The ZX-81 Episode: A New Old Machine is Reborn, A Giggling Child, A Beige Beauty, Rampack Wobble and Cassette Loads, The Process of Booting, C64 Cassettes, The Keystrokes, Scroll Lock and F2, Everything Works, Thanks Aschmitz and Trumad, Screenshots and Zen, The Cup of Tea, Well Worth The Search. We added ZX-81 emulation to the archive, something that probably made no sense to do years ago, but why not. If you want to visit the collection as it stands:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_zx_81_games

The Liminal Spaces Episode Oct 06, 2021

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The Liminal Spaces Episode: A Late-Stage Discovery, Transitions, Hallways, Contrasts, Checkerboards, Trees in Light, Gateways, Emulation as Transition, Pantone, Your Own Late-Stage Discovery. Plus: A Dead End.

A musing on the concept of liminal spaces, the strings that have guided my dances in the theater of life.